Bug#380227: texlive-bin: Why is the source in a tar.bz archive?
On Don, 28 Sep 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> > why does the texlive-bin source package contain a file source.tar.bz2
> > instead of unpacked sources? I find that very inconvenient to work
> > with, and it's against the spirit of a Debian package IMHO. If the
> > argument of saving space would be important, someone would have extended
> > dpkg-source to be able to read bz2 (or 7zip) archives already.
>
> What do you think?
You didn't get the answer I wrote the last time, what do *you* say to
this argumentation?
Best wishes
Norbert
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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> Università di Siena
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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