Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Charles Plessy wrote:
>> I see that .bzip2 and .lzma are also supported compression methods for the
>> 3.0
>> (native) format as well as for the binary packages. But I do not think it
>> would
>> be useful to add zip to this list. It seems to me that the only thing needed
>> is
>> the capacity to unpack the original upstream sources. In that case there
>> would
>> not be a need for a Lenny support, isn't it?
>
> You need it to be supported in stable before using it in unstable. So at best,
> you would need to implement it in Squeeze and wait for Squeeze+1 to use it.
This requirement is here to ensure smooth upgrade (stable -> testing (or new
stable)
with dpkg from stable). So it stand for .bzip2 and .lzma support in *binary*
packages.
Charles is talking about *sources* packages.
Some packages in testing already require other packages from testing to build
themselves (ie build-depends nor present in stable). This is catch by debbuild
for
example.
Unpacking a source package is not needed during an upgrade. However, it occurs
before
a build.
So, I understand the question of Charles as "do we want that stable dpkg be
able to
unpack all packages from testing ?". I have no strong opinion for this.
Regards,
Vincent
> Cheers,
> Emilio
>
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