Re: Recent changes in dpkg
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:27:40PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:00:47PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > Why they want it unfortunately is a wrong reasoning - the actual
> > > pending and still unanswered question is "why it is needed". They
> > > want people to switch to 3.0. By forcing to put something into
> > > debian/source/format people start putting 1.0 in there for no gain. I
> > > still fail to have received any real answer why debian/source/format
> > > "1.0" containing is better than no debian/source directory at all.
> > There is one possible benefit: impossibility to create a native package
> > when the .orig.tar.gz is missing, which happens much too often.
>
> Now you need to be more verbose. The dpkg-source manpage still lists 1.0
> as supporting both patched and native.
Let's replace "possible" with "hypothetical", then. That's the only
benefit i can find.
Mike
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