Previously Ben Collins wrote:
> 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.
Tomorrow actually, I'll upload a new dpkg tom
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
> 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, no
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 09:42:29AM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> 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 c
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
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.
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> > > > > 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
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
> > > ve
> > > 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,
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 12:25:19AM -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 intr
> 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?
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 10:00:07PM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ben Collins writes ("Re: Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source
> packages"):
> > On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:05:47AM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > This should not be a policy proposal
Ben Collins writes ("Re: Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source
packages"):
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:05:47AM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > This should not be a policy proposal yet, I think. Instead, get the
> > code into the distributed version of dpkg
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:05:47AM +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Chris Lawrence writes ("Bug#54002: [PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source
> packages"):
> > I propose that "woody" and subsequent releases permit the use of bzip2
> > format for source pack
Chris Lawrence writes ("Bug#54002: [PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source
packages"):
> I propose that "woody" and subsequent releases permit the use of bzip2
> format for source packages. Code to handle bzip2-compressed source
> packages has been integrated in
> I propose that "woody" and subsequent releases permit the use of bzip2
> format for source packages.
I second this.
Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.1.1.1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> I propose that "woody" and subsequent releases permit the use of bzip2
> format for source packages. [...]
I second this proposal.
Falk
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 11:09:48PM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> I propose that "woody" and subsequent releases permit the use of bzip2
> format for source packages. [...]
Sounds good.
> I can't find any section of the policy document that deals with the
> specifics of the soruce package format
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.1.1.1
Severity: wishlist
I propose that "woody" and subsequent releases permit the use of bzip2
format for source packages. Code to handle bzip2-compressed source
packages has been integrated into an experimental release of dpkg, and
could easily be ported to the
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