Re: Stop archive bloat: 47MB gmt-coast-full_19991001-1.deb
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.
Chris
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