> > > The version of dpkg that I have in experiemental allows the use of bz2 for > > > dpkg-source without breaking the format. > > > > Is there any reason for not having that bzip2 support in the potato > > version? > > We don't want to introduce anything like this into potato as part of dpkg, > this close to release. It can wait till woody. Mainly because it requires > some changes on the archive side to be able to handle it (ie. if you > switch to .bz2, the archive needs to be able to make the switch). AFAIK, > the archive scripts expect .gz for diffs, and .tar.gz for tarballs.
To have a dpkg in stable that can extract unstable source packages is a must. Don't you think? And I guess it's very little new code...
