On Sun, 15, Nov, 2009 at 02:40:20PM -0500, Joey Hess spoke thus..
> Another reason to avoid bz2 and other more esoteric compressors in debs
> uded by debootstrap is that debootstrap is run on systems other than d-i
> and debian.
>
> When debootstrap is used on a busybox based embedded system, bzip2 will
> likely not be available. When debootstrap is used on some old crufty[1]
> distribution, lzma and xz are likely not available. Adding these
> to the system before running debootstrap could be significant work.
>
> Recommend this bug is cloned to lintian, and lintian has checks
> added for Priority: required and above. Then the ftpmasters could
> even autoreject based on those checks (assuming the debs' built-in
> Priority info is accurate).
Just for the record, at the moment dak only allows data.tar.gz and
data.tar.bz2 (although I had to check that myself in the source code,
I've got documenting what is and isn't supported someone more sane on my
TODO list).
As I said on -devel recently, the data.tar.bz2 support in dak seems to
date from 2005, so it's been around for a while. lzma/xz on the other
hand hasn't even been asked for yet as far as I know.
Mark
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"That's why the good die young; it's because Death can't be bothered to check
the paperwork."
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