Reading Raphael’s Misc development news (#2), I thought I can now upload packages with orig.tar.bz2 sources. Dak quickly replied an error, and the ftp-masters verified that this feature isn’t available (yet).
So, for people like me, who didn’t read the text carefully or comprehended it wrongly, the new feature refers to the comprssion of the .deb file itself and not the the one of the upstream tarball.
I just wonder when will it be possible to upload .orig.tar.bz2 files to the archive, as it will save me repackaging some of my upstream tarballs…
31/01/2008 at 2:53 pm |
[...] algoritmem pomocí parametru -Z. Lior Kaplan ve svém blogu upozorňuje, že se tato podpora zatím netýká zdrojových souborů, které je zatím stále třeba komprimovat gzipem. Snad se časem dočkáme také orig.tar.bz2 [...]
31/01/2008 at 3:30 pm |
Since most apps do support gunzip, wouldn’t it be nice if gunzip was patched or replaced by a script that could detect the format and automatically use bunzip2 if necessary?
01/02/2008 at 5:48 pm |
GNU Tar has added lzma support in the alpha version.
I read that lzma decompresses faster then bz2 but compresses slower at http://tukaani.org/lzma/benchmarks