The one issue I can see is existing support for source packages. We should not allow bz2 source packages into our archives until after the source package tools have a good track record with transparently supporting this format.
[Specifically, I'd like to build some of my packages to support bz2, and test them out for myself on some of my systems -- other people might have other tests they want to run.] What do you think about the idea of splitting this policy change into several phases: during the first phase we test out the tools to deal with the packages, during the second we allow bz2 source packages to archived. [There might eventually be a third phase where we have dpkg-source build bz2 by default, and maybe a fourth where institute some kind of automatic conversion from gz to bz2 or file bug reports against packages which haven't made the switch -- I'm kind of dubious about the bug report approach, however: we're talking about an optimization here not a fundamental required feature.] Thanks, -- Raul
