On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:57:15PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 13:39 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> Package: devscripts >> Severity: wishlist >> >> Here is a patch to support .orig.tar.bz2 (and .orig.tar.lzma, >> whatever that is, but dpkg-source supports it) in debdiff and >> debuild. > > Thanks for the patches. > > Although dpkg-source will handle bz2 and lzma compressed orig > tarballs, it's currently not possible to upload either to the Debian > archive. That's unlikely to change until at least after lenny > releases, so I'm not going to add the support to devscripts yet. > > I'll leave the bugs open so we can revisit them once the archive has > the relevant support.
Even though dak doesn't support this yet, it would be useful for private packages. The next time you update the devscripts package, is there any reason *not* to incude this patch? (I think there's no need for an update *just* for this patch.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
