Package: debian-policy Version: 2.5.1.0 Severity: normal A recent report on the debian-cd list indicates that space on the potato source CDs is very tight (around 10 MB of slack). We are virtually certain to exceed this space limitation (and thus enter the realm of needing at least 3 source discs) unless we improve the compression of source packages. While people have raised legitimate objections to the use of bz2 for compressing binary packages, these concerns are less relevant to source packages, which are an archival medium typically used by a relative minority of users and/or build daemons, the latter of which operate essentially non-interactively.
Therefore, I propose that we permit the use of bzip2 to compress source package files (.orig.tar and .diff for most packages, .tar for native packages). I further propose that the use of bzip2 be mandatory for newly uploaded source files, and that any existing source packages in the archive in gzip format exceeding 5 MB of compressed space be converted upon the freeze for potato. -- System Information Debian Release: potato Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux humberto 2.2.9 #1 Fri May 28 15:50:02 CDT 1999 i586
