Bug#1007717: Draft resolution for "Native source package format with non-native version"

[Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>]

Re: Lucas Nussbaum
> A middle ground between (4) and (4b) could be to discourage the use of
> 1.0-with-diff in circumstances where it is not justified. Something
> like:
> 
> 4c. We believe that there are indeed circumstances in which
>     1.0-with-diff is the best choice for a particular source package,
>     including, but not limited to, git-first packaging workflows.
>     However, we recommend discontinuing use of 1.0-with-diff in other
>     circumstances to gain more uniformity.
> 
> That opens the path to an archive where the only remaining 1.0 packages
> are the ones where there's a reason to use 1.0. (as opposed to
> currently, where we have a mix of packages using 1.0 for a good reason,
> and packages using 1.0 because nobody cared to update them to modern
> practices).

The bit I was missing is something like "we would welcome changes to
the 3.0 format to make it usable for the remaining cases where 1.0 is
still better today". Did anyone investigate if that would be feasible?

Christoph