On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 01:12:40PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 04:30:56PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > > the attached patch extends the source format 3.0 handling by adding > > > support for .lzma and .xz compressed tarballs to svn-inject and > > > svn-buildpackage. > > > Patch is vs. SVN r15858 (where the original patch from Raphael adding > > > 3.0 and bz2 support was already applied). > > > > While there might be use for it in some cases, there is none in Debian > > yet. dak (the main archive software) only accepts gz and bz2 at the > > moment and I don't see much benefit in adding support for more in svn-bp > > now. There are bigger problems to solve and actually this could even > > lead to problems. > > Well, "xz" might be allowed by dak at some point (maybe even in squeeze+1) > so it's good to prepare for it IMO. > > I don't really see what kind of problems you expect. And Debian tools can > also be used by derivatives taking different decisions than ftpmasters > regarding the set of compression scheme allowed.
I was probably thinking of people using lzma with svn-inject and svn-bp an so on to see their upload rejected after all. But I don't really object to implementing it. I'm just saying that we should get the features working that are actually implemented in dpkg and dak but not working with svn-bp yet... :) Hauke
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