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Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification



Hi Boyuan,

On 2019-06-06 21:44, Boyuan Yang wrote:
> I do remember there's still some source packages / binary packages in Debian
> using the bzip2 format. If we are going to do that (which looks reasonable,
> BTW), a serious archive-wide scan should be made in advance to see how great
> the impact is and we need to deal with each occurrence.

Correction: s/some packages/massive amount of packages/

I quickly scanned my local Sid (amd64+source) mirror:

/l/M/debian ❯❯❯ find . -type f -name '*.orig.tar.bz2' | wc -l
1338
/l/M/debian ❯❯❯ find . -type f -name '*.debian.tar.bz2' | wc -l
57


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