On Jan 15, Chris Waters wrote: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 01:12:16AM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > > > To have a dpkg in stable that can extract unstable source packages is a > > must. Don't you think? > > Yes, I certainly do, and therefore, I think that we can't allow .bz2 source > packages until at least woody+1.
The code to extract bz2 source packages is trivial and requires no user intervention; it's ~ a dozen lines of Perl. Surely it could be introduced into potato's dpkg without any real problems. I agree we shouldn't allow potato dpkg to *create* bz2 packages, since other existing tools can't cope with them in that format. But unpacking is a different matter entirely. (n.b. this could also be handled with a source dependency, I think, if things like apt-get source will respect them soon... afaik only buildd and friends care at the moment.) Chris -- ============================================================================= | Chris Lawrence | Visit my home page! | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ | | | | | Debian Developer | Join the party that opposed the CDA | | http://www.debian.org/ | http://www.lp.org/ | =============================================================================
