On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 01:12:16AM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > > > > The version of dpkg that I have in experiemental allows the use of bz2 > > > > for > > > > dpkg-source without breaking the format. > > > > > > Is there any reason for not having that bzip2 support in the potato > > > version? > > > > We don't want to introduce anything like this into potato as part of dpkg, > > this close to release. It can wait till woody. Mainly because it requires > > some changes on the archive side to be able to handle it (ie. if you > > switch to .bz2, the archive needs to be able to make the switch). AFAIK, > > the archive scripts expect .gz for diffs, and .tar.gz for tarballs. > > To have a dpkg in stable that can extract unstable source packages is a > must. Don't you think? And I guess it's very little new code...
dpkg-dev is pretty independant of the release. It is quite ok to run dpkg-dev from woody, with dpkg from potato (speaking in a future tense, but I suspect the same is true of slink.spkg and potato.dpkg-dev). We cannot have this feature at all until the archive scripts can handle it, and changing those so close to a release is my main concern. Let's get things out the door before trying to move forward on this. Potato releases soon, no harm in patience on a matter like this :) -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
