The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.devel.dpkg.bugs as well.
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:03:42 +0200, Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On 2006-08-17 Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 17:57:23 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>>> Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.13.22 Severity: wishlist
>>> dpkg-source in sid supports unpacking packages using bz2
>>> compression, i.e. foo_0.5.9-1.diff.gz foo_0.5.9-1.dsc
>>> foo_0.5.9.orig.tar.bz2
>>> It would nice if dpkg-buildpackage also supported producing these
>>> packages. I would appreciate this a lot, as it would allow me to
>>> ship gnutls' sourcecoding without re-packing it. - Upstream
>>> nowadays only offers tar.bz2, but no tar.gz.
>> Sorry but this is not going to be possible until a version of dpkg
>> which supports this is in stable.
> Hello, Do we require to be able to extraxt unstable's source
> packages with stable's dpkg? Why? There are no upgrade issues (As
> would be for bz2 parts in *binary* packages.).
Err, since we support partal binary upgrades, why should
partial source upgrades be denied? We are trying to reach a
community that uses free source -- so it makes sense to give as much
attention to people using sources as we do to people using the
binaries (the former usually tend to help out more).
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