Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 09:01:31AM -0400, James Vega wrote:
> 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?

I thought Raphael's idea on the (theoretical) format was a bit more than
recording VCS repository site but how VCS is used as imput to the packaging.

In any case, I am for not-adding too-much-complication if we can live
without them.

Osamu