missing 64bit ports (xdelta3 vs xdelta and pristine-tar)

[jari]

On 2015-07-17 07:32, Marco Atzeri wrote:
| On 7/17/2015 1:52 AM, jari wrote:
| >
| >There will be need for pristine-tar for long foreseeable future. It's
| >mature already.
| >
| >| The option above may no longer be needed with xdelta3, since from
| >| reading the manpage it seems it no longer automatically decompresses
| >| its input.  But there are likely other incompatibilities.
| >
| >Let's hear what the xdelta3 developer says about xdelta1 --pristine
| >option. I can then patch the code and test it more.
| >
| >Jari
| >
| 
| his answer:
| 
| "Xdelta3 and xdelta1 use completely different file formats. I have
| considered an option to translate old xdelta1 patchfiles into current
| xdelta3 patchfiles, but bugfixes and release work keep taking priority."
| 
| I will repack xdelta1
| 
| As I already bumped xdelta to 3.x series
| any problem if I create a new xdelta1 package ?

All good, provided that:

   xdelta1 => /usr/bin/xdelta   (the original)
   xdelta3 => /usr/bin/xdelta3 

Jari