Le 07/06/2019 à 09:48, Mo Zhou a écrit : > 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
Hello, uscan can be modified to repackage all tar.bz2 upstream archives to tar.xz ones (as for .zip files). If we decide to remove bz2, please open a BTS against devscripts and I'll do the work. Cheers, Xavier
