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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Proposal new source archive format
From:       Branden Robinson <branden () ecn ! purdue ! edu>
Date:       2000-04-30 23:06:40
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On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 03:55:55PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> There are more than a few packages out there which do evil things to
> archives which are not in normal tar.gz/tar.bz2 format to make them fit
> the Debian profile of a source package.  I'd rather use the pristine
> upstream source where it's reasonable.

Not packaging source code as a compressed tarfile is not reasonable.

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G. Branden Robinson            |       If you make people think they're
Debian GNU/Linux               |       thinking, they'll love you;
branden@ecn.purdue.edu         |       but if you really make them think,
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