Hi,
On Thu, 9 May 2019, 15:57 Ian Jackson, <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
wrote:
> Ansgar writes ("Re: .deb format: let's use 0.939, zstd, drop bzip2"):
> > `ar` needs to be replaced for the file size limitation mentioned in the
> > initial mail: ar represents file size as a 10 digit decimal number[1]
> > which limits the members (control.tar.*, data.tar.*) to ~10G.
> ...
> > Replacing `ar` is an incompatible format change. So if we already do
> > an incompatible change, it is an appropriate time to bundle any other
> > incompatible changes (if there are any). That is why I suggested that
> > it might be useful to also replace the `tar` archives with another
> > format.
>
> As has been pointed out, we have done many incompatible format
> changes. Every new compression algorithm is one. It isn't really a
> big problem, when managed properly.
>
> So I strongly disagree. The archive size limit is getting more and
> more annoying. We should not let fixing that be entangled with some
> random other nice-to-haves.
>
> Personally I still like my multi-ar-member proposal here
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2016/05/msg00027.html
> Guillem didn't seem entirely unreceptive but nothing came of it.
>
How about the format opkg used for some time, which is a .deb file but with
tar as the outer container format instead of ar?
--
Cheers,
Andrej
>
