Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:

> On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Neil Williams wrote:
> > Now all I need is for dpkg to accept that the absence of
> > debian/source/format is declarative of source format 1.0.
>
> That's the case _for now_.

You seem to imply that the meaning of the above situation is subject to
change outside the power of the dpkg maintainers. If so, why would that
be?

If not, and the definition of those meanings is up to the dpkg
maintainers, why would they ever want the above meaning to change?

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