On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 09:25:38AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > 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_. > > packages don't need to be changed merely to state the obvious. > They need because the dpkg maintainers have decided that it might > not be the case indefinitely. Fundamentally, I don't think that's a responsible decision for the dpkg maintainers to make. You're making busywork for maintainers, and conflict for yourself, by insisting on this when there's no technical reason it should be the case. If what you care about is the format used by *new* packages, I think you should focus on making sure the templates maintainers are using (such as dh-make) set the desired default explicitly. That would have an *immediate* payoff, unlike trying to change the implicit default, which involves a lot of work for a very small payoff in the distant future (i.e.: make all the developers manually add this file now so that, at some point when all packages have the file, the default can be changed and a different set of packages can remove the file again). -- 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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