Re: Recent changes in dpkg
On 2010-05-26, Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de> wrote:
>> * The plan concerning dpkg-source and the default source format has been
>> clarified. In the long term, the default format will disappear and
>> debian/source/format will become mandatory. The lintian tag
>> missing-debian-source-format[2] will help us track that.
> Which will force developers to touch most of the packages in the archive just to
> realize this? Sorry, but that's insane. You should not try to force people into
> migrating to some new format because *you* think it is better.
ETOPIC. You have to specify the format in the package. Nowhere they write
that 1.0 will disappear. And they say "in the long term" too, so
"debian/source/format" should be propagating naturally into most of the
packages due to the lintian tag.
Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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