On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 07:11:24PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Therefore, I propose that we permit the use of bzip2 to compress > > source package files (.orig.tar for non-native packages, .tar for > > native packages). A patch to dpkg-1.4.1.16 is available that > > implements this capability as an option. Note that diff files are > > still compressed with gzip, even with bzip2 support for tar files > > enabled, because few are over 5k in size (compressed). > > Could that maybe be more general. I would like to have a line in the > dsc file that tells how to uncompress the tar.xxx file, i.e. names the > program to pipe the file through, to get the tar itself. Normaly (or > if not mentioned) gunzip would be used. > > It would normaly look as follows: > > uncmopressor: gunzip
Normally, one could just look at the extension (.gz, .bz2). I don't see a need to add an extra field to the .dsc. Ben
