On Mon, 18 October 1999 13:15:36 -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Oct 18, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Another possibility would be someone adding bzip2 support to dpkg et al, > > and having .orig.tar.bz2's, and data.tar.bz2. (This actually doesn't look > > like it'd be all /that/ difficult, either, just a matter of conditionally > > using /usr/bin/bzip2 instead of /bin/gzip. Hmmm.) > > There's a pending policy proposal to permit the use of bz2 source > packages and diffs. I think dpkg-source is a bit ugly, but it > probably wouldn't be too hard for a perl hacker (i.e. not me) to add > the support.
Now, who of the ones that *can* change policy is going to do anything on it? Please, can some of those give the many of us an idea of what is the problem or (possibly) what I am getting wrong? Thanks, Alexander -- Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. -- Oscar Wilde Alexander Koch - <>< - WWJD - aka Efraim - PGP 0xE7694969 - ARGH-RIPE
