Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 01:12:16AM -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.
>
> 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...
dpkg-dev is pretty independant of the release. It is quite ok to run
dpkg-dev from woody, with dpkg from potato (speaking in a future tense,
but I suspect the same is true of slink.spkg and potato.dpkg-dev).
We cannot have this feature at all until the archive scripts can handle
it, and changing those so close to a release is my main concern. Let's get
things out the door before trying to move forward on this.
Potato releases soon, no harm in patience on a matter like this :)
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