On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:58:39PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > Why are you insisting that all DDs should switch when switching is an > effort for no benefit[1] and not switching is no effort at all ? In fact, I don't feel this is the point [1]. The new lintian warning, which triggered the various blog posts, simply complains about the lack of _explicit_ information about which is the source package format in the tested package. In general, making explicit information that was implicit before, is a good thing. No matter how much the new format is liked/disliked, it is a fact that we currently have more than one source format supported by our toolchain, from dpkg up to dak. As a maintainer, I'm happy to have a way to make explicit the format I want to use for my package, rather than relying on an external default value which is not under my control. Since the goal of having such default explicit seems a worthwhile one to me, I'm also happy that lintian reminds me about that. Cheers. [1] hey, I want to join the "you're missing the point" club :-) -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre uno zaino ...........| ..: |.... Je dis tu à tous ceux que j'aime
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