On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Frans Pop <elen...@planet.nl> wrote: > On Monday 16 November 2009, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Clint Adams <sch...@debian.org> wrote: >> > This anticipates the eventuality of data.tar.xz. >> >> I've commited your patch in SVN; even though it is not yet clear that >> .bz2 data.tar are going to be accepted for base packages I see now >> reason to now support it in debootstrap leaving this decision to FTP >> masters. > > Have you thought this through? > > Have you considered Joey's arguments that as a distribution we should not > *want* to support multiple compression methods in debootstrap because the > decompressors may not be available?
Yes; and I agree that Debian shouldn't support it _but_ it does't mean deboostrap cannot support it. > How will debootstrap react when the decompressors are not available? It is going to output an error ... "File not found!" :-) > If you do add this to SVN, shouldn't you also add a dependency on the > decompressors? No since it is not supported by Debian ATM; we're going to have support on the "code" for it and derivatives can use it if desired but I don't think we ought to add depends on something that is not used. > Please don't commit patches blindly. I did not. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
