New source package uploads to `unstable' allowed
You may now upload packages in the new source format to `unstable'.
Packages in `stable' will continue to be in the old format.
Note that the caveats in my release announcement on debian-changes for
1.3.8 apply:
* The new source tools have not been very well tested and will have
bugs, some probably serious.
* The source format is not entirely fixed yet. You may need to make
significant changes. You _will_ need to keep up with minor
documentation changes and _will_ need to make at least one further
release when the format is finalised as the Standards-Version value
will be changed. However, building releases is a lot easier now :-)
and you don't have to re-upload the original source tarfile part of
the source more than once per upstream version.
I shall probably declare the new format official on Sunday.
Ian.
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