Re: upstream tarball repackaging from bz2 to gz

2006-10-10 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Sun, 03.09.2006 at 22:13:26 +0200, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Toni Mueller wrote: another question is whether we can possibly adapt the policy and tools to directly allow .bz2 files in Debian - we would benefit from smaller files, too. Why not use 7z in this

upstream tarball repackaging from bz2 to gz

2006-09-03 Thread Eric Cooper
The upstream tarball for a package I maintain is in .tar.bz2 format. I've been downloading it and recompressing it into .tar.gz format. This seems like a very common situation. 1. Should I still follow the section on best practices for .orig.tar.gz files in the Developer's Reference, and include

Re: upstream tarball repackaging from bz2 to gz

2006-09-03 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 10:10 -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: The upstream tarball for a package I maintain is in .tar.bz2 format. I've been downloading it and recompressing it into .tar.gz format. This seems like a very common situation. Yes very common. 1. Should I still follow the section on

Re: upstream tarball repackaging from bz2 to gz

2006-09-03 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 03 September 2006 17:10, Eric Cooper wrote: The upstream tarball for a package I maintain is in .tar.bz2 format. I've been downloading it and recompressing it into .tar.gz format. This seems like a very common situation. 1. Should I still follow the section on best practices for

Re: upstream tarball repackaging from bz2 to gz

2006-09-03 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Sun, 03.09.2006 at 19:04:49 +0300, George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 03 September 2006 17:10, Eric Cooper wrote: (I don't think I can justify asking upstream to publish a more wasteful version of the same bits on his website just to suit Debian.) True. another

Re: upstream tarball repackaging from bz2 to gz

2006-09-03 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 03 September 2006 19:18, Toni Mueller wrote: Hi, On Sun, 03.09.2006 at 19:04:49 +0300, George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 03 September 2006 17:10, Eric Cooper wrote: (I don't think I can justify asking upstream to publish a more wasteful version of the same

Re: upstream tarball repackaging from bz2 to gz

2006-09-03 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Sun, 03.09.2006 at 19:45:23 +0300, George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 03 September 2006 19:18, Toni Mueller wrote: another question is whether we can possibly adapt the policy and tools to directly allow .bz2 files in Debian - we would benefit from smaller files,

Re: upstream tarball repackaging from bz2 to gz

2006-09-03 Thread Daniel Baumann
Eric Cooper wrote: The upstream tarball for a package I maintain is in .tar.bz2 format. I've been downloading it and recompressing it into .tar.gz format. This seems like a very common situation. ...FWIW, my opinion to that:

Re: upstream tarball repackaging from bz2 to gz

2006-09-03 Thread Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)
Toni Mueller wrote: Hi, On Sun, 03.09.2006 at 19:04:49 +0300, George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 03 September 2006 17:10, Eric Cooper wrote: (I don't think I can justify asking upstream to publish a more wasteful version of the same bits on his website just to suit

Re: upstream tarball repackaging from bz2 to gz

2006-09-03 Thread Joe Smith
Toni Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, On Sun, 03.09.2006 at 19:45:23 +0300, George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 03 September 2006 19:18, Toni Mueller wrote: another question is whether we can possibly adapt the policy and tools to