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

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello,

On Tue 07 Jun 2022 at 11:26am +01, Ian Jackson wrote:

> In this case I would like to suggest that progress would be better
> served by trying to unblock a better source format that (i) has some
> kind of delta representation (ii) does not put a
> needing-to-be-maintained copy of the delta metadata inside the working
> tree.
>
> There are several proposals for how to do that which are obviously
> possible to implement.  If the TC wants to unblock that, you could
> look at them and pick one.
>
> (And, I quextion whether .dsc format is the right place for Debian to
> pursue uniformity.  .dsc is a legacy format we are maintaining because
> our git transition is stalled.)

I think that this would be out-of-scope for this bug as presented to us:
we'd need someone to present those options for us to choose between.
Let's stick with the current resolution text for a bug that's probably
been open too long already.

-- 
Sean Whitton