Hi, On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 09:54:01AM +0200, Xavier wrote: > Le 07/06/2019 à 09:48, Mo Zhou a écrit : > > On 2019-06-06 21:44, Boyuan Yang wrote: > >> I do remember there's still some source packages / binary packages in > >> Debian > >> using the bzip2 format. If we are going to do that (which looks reasonable, > >> BTW), a serious archive-wide scan should be made in advance to see how > >> great > >> the impact is and we need to deal with each occurrence. > > > > Correction: s/some packages/massive amount of packages/ > > > > I quickly scanned my local Sid (amd64+source) mirror: > > > > /l/M/debian ❯❯❯ find . -type f -name '*.orig.tar.bz2' | wc -l > > 1338 > > /l/M/debian ❯❯❯ find . -type f -name '*.debian.tar.bz2' | wc -l > > 57 > > Hello, > > uscan can be modified to repackage all tar.bz2 upstream archives to > tar.xz ones (as for .zip files). If we decide to remove bz2, please open > a BTS against devscripts and I'll do the work.
If upstream ships a .bz2 I wouldn't want uscan to unilaterally repackage it to something else, so -1 from to do that automatically. Michael
