On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 03:17:43PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Oct 23, Raul Miller wrote: > > 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. > > Fair enough; probably what we need is: > > 1. dpkg-dev needs the bzip2 support folded in ASAP, ahead of the > policy change, perhaps with a note that bz2 format is not to be > used for "live" uploads until it is adopted in policy.
If anything, this needs to be restricted to a package in "experiemental", not in any of the main archives. That way there is no chance of some saying "well the option was there, I didn't know we didn't actually support it yet, so I used it". Adding that feature is no problem as long as it isn't in the mainline. I think we may see some regular uploads to expieremental for dpkg here in the near future anyway. Ben
