Package: piuparts Severity: wishlist Version: 0.41 We have recently seen failures #633782 and #644353 making the installer fail due to individual packages using bzip2 compression of the data part in the corresponding binary package.
Would it be possible, and suitable, to have Piuparts implement an examination of the compression type used on a package? To prevent bugs like those mentioned, one would need to identify which compression types the bootstrapper supports in the installer at all times, and one would need to keep track of which dependencies are brought in by the installer. This latter information should be readily available already, or at least traceable, and the first piece of information is even simpler to register. We recently saw an emerging discussion on compression methods for packages, in a thread which certainly is relevant for the kind of grave bugs that I address here. Thus it seems relevant that the build infrastructure pay attention to this most disruptive source of errors. Best regards, Mats Erik Andersson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
