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

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello,

On Wed 08 Jun 2022 at 12:06pm +02, Julian Andres Klode wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 08:19:29PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
>> Please keep in mind that this is about trade-offs. It is a question of
>> how we value "package ownership". If we favour the strong ownership
>> approach that Debian used for a long time, then yes accommodating the
>> needs of maintainers is paramount. If we want to lessen the concept of
>> ownership, embrace drive-by contributions and decentralize maintenance,
>> then we need a stronger focus on uniformity. I suppose that my own
>> opinion on this matter is fairly obvious at this point.
>
> This is also a significant issue for downstreams. With my Ubuntu hat
> on, if I have to touch packages downstream, I loathe it everytime I
> get a non-descript blob of all the changes.

This is not inherent to all of the workflows we are discussing here,
just one of them.  Indeed, this is one of the primary motivations for
one of the others.

-- 
Sean Whitton