Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages

[Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>]

> > > 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.

 To have a dpkg in stable that can extract unstable source packages is a
must. Don't you think? And I guess it's very little new code...