On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 05:34:48PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > Presuming things continue to work in unstable, the same change will be > > made to testing in a few weeks. Similarly, the Contents-*.gz files for > > unstable will probably be switching to .bz2 in the not too distant future.
The changes uncomrpessed -> .gz seems fine to me, but the changes .gz -> .bz2 is IMO a bit risky. I'm thinking about the lack of binding for libbz2 library (or at least the .deb of them) for a lot of programming languages (e.g.: perl, python, ocaml seems to me to be missing such a binding). I have a lot of scripts (and I suppose a lot of people have too) that parse .gz version of debian db and if you switch it all to .bz2, this can be a problem. Obviously we can start writing, packaging, libbz2 binding and also is a minor problem if changing only Contents* file; this mail is just to add some relevance to this aspect. My 0.02 Eur, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli - undergraduate student of CS @ Univ. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 33538863 | http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro "I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant!" -- G.Romney
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