[pacman-dev] bzip2 package compression

[Dan McGee]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Mark Constable <markc at renta.net> wrote:
> On 2008-12-07, Dan McGee wrote:
>> > Is there a reason that a -cjf is not used in makepkg ?
>> ...
>> The current code is a bit smarter and compresses correctly
>> depending on the extension.
>
> Ah cool, I presume this is in your Git repo?
>
> If so, do you think your current git repo is "stable
> enough" to give this a whirl with the few dozen folks
> using the daily kde-svn packages?

Yeah this has probably been in GIT for some time.

All of us that are regular contributors to pacman are already using
pacman-git, so yeah, it better be stable. If you do go this route, be
sure to report problems to the list or in Flyspray (set the reported
version to 'git').

-Dan