On 11 Jun 1999, Chris Waters wrote: > Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - If there is no available digital signature and the work is packed in > > an archive format that stores meta-information (OS/2 EAs, Mac > > Resource forks, etc) then the archive encoding of the work must not > > be changed by the packager, but if possible it should be converted > > to maximum compression. > > Whoah, you're saying that we can't convert zip archives (which may > contain EAs/resource forks) to tarballs? I think we're going to have > trouble with that one.
That is exactly what I am saying (assuming the zip file does contain such items) We cannot go around blitly repacking things when it -DOES- cause loss of data, that is not pristine source [I consider most meta information to be part of the work]. Also arguably that should also extend to owner/group/perms stored in .tar files - we can perform conversions so long as the original information is preserved It has been long said that we need dpkg-source and friends to support .zip files and other obscure packaging formats, the above intepritation of my definition of pristine simply gives a clear reason why and when that is needed. Jason
