Hello, On Wed 15 Jun 2022 at 04:06PM +02, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > According to https://udd.debian.org/~lucas/format10.cgi (which is based > on what lintian knows about the archive), there are 114 packages using > 1.0 with quilt. However, 67 of those are maintained by the Debian X > team. If you plan to discontinue 1.0+patch-system in the context of > this bug, it would probably be a good idea to have a discussion with > them to better understand their use case. Thanks for this info. > I personally think that it would be enough for this bug to issue a clear > statement that we want to move away from 1.0 unless there's a good > reason, on a per-package basis, not to. That would create a mandate to > work on surveying the remaining packages and identifying the remaining > use cases. That would also allow motivated volunteers to work on > migrating the remaining packages when there's no reason to stay with > 1.0, using the NMU procedure if needed. I agree that this would be a good outcome, as expressed by your option 4c. -- Sean Whitton
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