Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

Sven Mueller wrote:
> (for example in changing silently to native package format if the
> orig.tar.gz is missing)

That's not true is it? At least, if I use 'debuild' I get a pretty big 
warning if the orig.tar.gz is missing.

<snip>
$ apt-get source acct
$ rm acct_6.5.1.orig.tar.gz
$ debuild
This package has a Debian revision number but there does not seem to be
an appropriate original tar file or .orig directory in the parent 
directory; (expected one of acct_6.5.1.orig.tar.gz, 
acct_6.5.1.orig.tar.bz2, acct_6.5.1.orig.tar.lzma or acct-6.5.1.orig)
</snip>

If that is debuild specific, wouldn't it be much simpler to implement the 
same check in dpkg-dev than having every package add this silly format 
file?

I for one am very happy I won't be seeing the Lintian warning anymore and 
have no intention of adding the source/format file until forced to for my 
(very few) packages. IMO format 1.0 is perfectly adequate for tons of 
packages and should remain the default without any need to be specified.

Cheers,
FJP