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Robert Collins wrote: > > Another script is used to traverse the distribution tree and convert > > all .tar.gz to .tar.bz2 which is obviously the better compression tool > > here. > > This is wrong. It's up to the package maintainer to choose .tar.gz or > .tar.bz2, and if the package is going to be changed the cygwin version > suffix MUST be bumped. Yeah, do you also want to autoconvert all .tar.bz2 files to .rpm without the maintainer's input, or from .rpm to .deb? This is a maintainer decision, not an authoritarian dictated one. --Chuck
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