Romain Francoise wrote:

>  2) Doesn't the disappearance of 'data.tar.gz' warrant a bump of the
>     binary version number, from 2.0 to, say, 3.0?

>   http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/10/msg02053.html

The above link says it should be 3.0 for bz2 compressed binary debs:

> Dpkg-deb will also automatically detect the compression type when
> unpacking the .deb. Note that the new .bz2 format will have a package
> format version of "3.0" so that older dpkg's that don't support this will
> give and error to the affect of "you need a newer dpkg" (for some reason a
> major version increase is needed for this to happen).


-- 

  Felipe Sateler


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