On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 08:47:22AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes: > > On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Neil Williams wrote: > > > debian/source/format, I'll override the lintian warning until dpkg > > > is fixed. (Already done that for a few packages.) > > Doing that means “I don't want to hardcode the format to use, I want > > to use whatever the dpkg maintainers feel best as default”. > I would expect the absence of a ‘debian/source/format’ file to always > mean “source format 1.0”, since that's already the case for all packages > that were uploaded before different source formats were available. Quite. If it's really so important to the dpkg maintainers that source format 1.0 is declared, why doesn't dpkg-source -b *generate* this content automatically as part of the .diff.gz so that maintainers aren't being asked to take a manual action to assert the status quo? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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