suggestion: release .bz2 source packages

[Michael Opdenacker]

Hello,

What about releasing source packages compressed by bzip2?

        * A bz2 source package would be easier to download, especially
          for people with slow or time-limited internet connections. For
          example, gcc-3.2.tar.bz2 is 24% smaller (20523950 bytes) than
          gcc-3.2.tar.gz (26963731 bytes). As far as I am concerned, I
          would have saved 20-30 minutes of download time.
        * bzip2 is now widespread and very easy to use as it has the
          same interface as gzip.
        * Several GNU packages already deliver both .gz and .bz2 source
          packages: autoconf, automake, binutils, bison, clisp,
          ghostscript, gnunet, grep, gtypist, sather, texutils.

Cheers,

	Michael.

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