"Artur R. Czechowski" <artu...@snafu.pl> writes: > Upstream of imms stopped to ship tar.gz file and ships only tar.bz2. > However, there is no new upstream release at the moment. The question > is: Shall I prepare new release of Debian package using tar.bz2 > tarball?
> There was a short discussion on #debian-devel, but there was no conclusion. > Possible answers are: > 1. Definitely, if possible you shall keep the tarball the same as upstream > tarball (unless other concerns are involved, like, for example, DFSG > compliancy). > 2. Absolutely not. Just stick to current tarball and switch when new upstream > release will be available. I'd go with 2. I don't see any need to hurry with replacing the tarball with a bzip2-compressed version until upstream releases a new release. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bpc4xf36....@windlord.stanford.edu
