Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages

2000-01-16 Thread Wichert Akkerman
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

Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages

2000-01-15 Thread Ben Collins
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

Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages

2000-01-15 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> 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

Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages

2000-01-15 Thread Ben Collins
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

Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages

2000-01-15 Thread Chris Lawrence
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

Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages

2000-01-15 Thread Chris Waters
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. -- Chris Waters [

Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages

2000-01-15 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> > > > > 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

Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages

2000-01-15 Thread Ben Collins
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

Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages

2000-01-15 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> > > 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,

Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages

2000-01-15 Thread Ben Collins
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

Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages

2000-01-15 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> 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?

Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages

2000-01-15 Thread Ben Collins
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

Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages

2000-01-14 Thread Ian Jackson
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

Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages

2000-01-13 Thread Ben Collins
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

Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages

2000-01-13 Thread Ian Jackson
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

Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages

2000-01-09 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> I propose that "woody" and subsequent releases permit the use of bzip2 > format for source packages. I second this.

Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages

2000-01-09 Thread Falk Hueffner
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

Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages

2000-01-04 Thread Anthony Towns
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

Bug#54002: [PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages

2000-01-04 Thread Chris Lawrence
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