On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:56:39PM +0000, Alexander Koch wrote: > On Mon, 18 October 1999 13:15:36 -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > On Oct 18, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Another possibility would be someone adding bzip2 support to dpkg et al, > > > and having .orig.tar.bz2's, and data.tar.bz2. (This actually doesn't look > > > like it'd be all /that/ difficult, either, just a matter of conditionally > > > using /usr/bin/bzip2 instead of /bin/gzip. Hmmm.) > > There's a pending policy proposal to permit the use of bz2 source > > packages and diffs. I think dpkg-source is a bit ugly, but it > > probably wouldn't be too hard for a perl hacker (i.e. not me) to add > > the support. > Now, who of the ones that *can* change policy is going to do > anything on it? Please, can some of those give the many of > us an idea of what is the problem or (possibly) what I am > getting wrong?
(a) There's not much point changing policy when the code's not written.
(b) IIRC the policy proposal *requires* .bz2 compression for all sources,
rather than just allowing it, which isn't ideal.
Cheers,
aj
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