Re: Stop archive bloat: 47MB gmt-coast-full_19991001-1.deb

1999-10-21 Thread Anthony Towns
(-policy only) On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 11:43:37AM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Oct 20, Anthony Towns wrote: > > The policy weekly summary includes ``I further propose that the use > > of bzip2 be mandatory for newly uploaded source files''. This has been > > both seconded and objected to (its

Re: Stop archive bloat: 47MB gmt-coast-full_19991001-1.deb

1999-10-20 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Oct 20, Anthony Towns wrote: > The policy weekly summary includes ``I further propose that the use > of bzip2 be mandatory for newly uploaded source files''. This has been > both seconded and objected to (its Bug#39299). I wouldn't say any sort > of consensus has been reached personally. It need

Re: Stop archive bloat: 47MB gmt-coast-full_19991001-1.deb

1999-10-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 05:47:13AM +, Alexander Koch wrote: > On Wed, 20 October 1999 11:07:47 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Now, who of the ones that *can* change policy is going to do > > > anything on it? Please, can some of those give the many of > > > us an idea of what is the problem

Re: Stop archive bloat: 47MB gmt-coast-full_19991001-1.deb

1999-10-20 Thread Alexander Koch
Hi Anthony. On Wed, 20 October 1999 11:07:47 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Now, who of the ones that *can* change policy is going to do > > anything on it? Please, can some of those give the many of > > us an idea of what is the problem or (possibly) what I am > > getting wrong? > > (a) There's

Re: Stop archive bloat: 47MB gmt-coast-full_19991001-1.deb

1999-10-20 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Oct 20, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Now, who of the ones that *can* change policy is going to do > > anything on it? Please, can some of those give the many of > > us an idea of what is the problem or (possibly) what I am > > getting wrong? > > (a) There's not much point changing policy when the c

Re: Stop archive bloat: 47MB gmt-coast-full_19991001-1.deb

1999-10-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:56:39PM +, Alexander Koch wrote: > On Mon, 18 October 1999 13:15:36 -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > On Oct 18, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > Another possibility would be someone adding bzip2 support to dpkg et al, > > > and having .orig.tar.bz2's, and data.tar.bz2. (Thi

Re: Stop archive bloat: 47MB gmt-coast-full_19991001-1.deb

1999-10-19 Thread Alexander Koch
On Mon, 18 October 1999 13:15:36 -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Oct 18, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Another possibility would be someone adding bzip2 support to dpkg et al, > > and having .orig.tar.bz2's, and data.tar.bz2. (This actually doesn't look > > like it'd be all /that/ difficult, either, j