On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 02:51:52PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > > a) the RIGHT way is more than 12 lines of perl code. "the right way" means > > that we wont have to do anything but add three small entries in a hash to > > allow other compression types. So you are incorrect on the size of this > > change. > > > > b) It is not just a matter of the dpkg tools, nor the users of them. As I > > said before, the archive scripts are not paying attention, and may > > perhaps > > choke badly if some one does decide to upload a package for potato using > > this compressions (as opposed to returning a REJECT with the proper > > notice). > > > > The proper thing for now is to possibly add a check in dpkg-source for > > other than .gz compression, and error out with a reasonably generic note > > about it. > > Why don't do it, like he said, "the wrong and safe way"? A way that touch > existing code as little as possible. And just the capability to *extract* > packages, not to create them. > And in woody we could have the new multi-compressor system you propose... > > If we do that, we could start using bz2 in woody. If we don't we'll need to > wait another (probably long) release cycle...
Because allowing it to be decompressed and not created is worse than any other solution. It is a hack and the wrong way to handle this. I am going to write a quick and small piece of code for dpkg-source in potato that will check for non-gzip compression. When that happens, it will notify the user to upgrade to a newer dpkg-dev package. They can do that if they want to handle the new source compression. After that, when woody first forks (this weekend I suspect), then I can add the code to woody's dpkg. So it is only a matter for a few days (maybe a week depending on how my time permits) till this will be available. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
