Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages
On Jan 15, Chris Waters wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 01:12:16AM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
>
> > To have a dpkg in stable that can extract unstable source packages is a
> > must. Don't you think?
>
> Yes, I certainly do, and therefore, I think that we can't allow .bz2 source
> packages until at least woody+1.
The code to extract bz2 source packages is trivial and requires no
user intervention; it's ~ a dozen lines of Perl. Surely it could be
introduced into potato's dpkg without any real problems.
I agree we shouldn't allow potato dpkg to *create* bz2 packages, since
other existing tools can't cope with them in that format. But
unpacking is a different matter entirely.
(n.b. this could also be handled with a source dependency, I think, if
things like apt-get source will respect them soon... afaik only buildd
and friends care at the moment.)
Chris
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