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Re: About new source formats for packages without patches



On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 08:47:28PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:18:30AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Niels Thykier wrote:
> > >   That being said, I would (as it is now) actually prefer that it was
> > > just a helper tool that from a VCS could derive a source package of
> > > existing format. That would probably also increase the adoption rate,
> > > since existing tools would work with those formats.
> > 
> > The (theoretical) format that I gave as example was precisely this: it
> > generates a "3.0 (quilt)" source package using a VCS repository as input.
> 
> I guess what we should have is additional line in it or additional file
> to record vcs used for packaging which will not interface with the basic
> operation of other tools.

You mean Vcs-* in debian/control?

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>

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