Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 12:25:19AM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> > The version of dpkg that I have in experiemental allows the use of bz2 for
> > dpkg-source without breaking the format.
>
> Is there any reason for not having that bzip2 support in the potato
> version?
We don't want to introduce anything like this into potato as part of dpkg,
this close to release. It can wait till woody. Mainly because it requires
some changes on the archive side to be able to handle it (ie. if you
switch to .bz2, the archive needs to be able to make the switch). AFAIK,
the archive scripts expect .gz for diffs, and .tar.gz for tarballs.
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