On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:46:33PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > However I'm also convinced that: > - a source package should be unpackable without a VCS. This means that > somehow it should contain a checkout that can be extracted with basic > tools. [1] I don't think it's feasible to require that. It's a great goal, but we're not there, and may not be there by lenny; and having a better source format for lenny+1 is more important than that goal. > - it will take several years until we can standardize on VCS-based source I don't think we have a VCS-equilvaent source package format that's worth considering standardising on: .tgz and .orig/.diff aren't powerful enough, git and bzr are too system specific, and wig&pen is too unimplemented. So while I'm not exactly disagreeing with either premise, I don't think it makes sense to consider them atm. If they do eventually work out, to the point that dpkg will auto convert VCS-managed repos to tar+patches and back again in useful and convenient ways, then we can start REJECTing .git/.bzr/.hg/whatever uploads that we will have been accepting in the meantime, and expect maintainers to do that. Cheers, aj
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