Re: Meaning of the different “format” fields and files.
On Sat, 29 May 2010, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer. I sent a patch for the Policy to this bug report. I
> agree with the comment of Manoj in message #15 that the Format field of the
> Debian source control files would have better been called Src-Format or
> something similar. Do you think that there is a chance to correct this in the
> future?
It's unlikely, it's a complication with no clear benefit.
> The patch I sent indicates the meaning of the Format field for the Debian
> change files and source control files, and brings the Policy up to date with
> the format 1.8 for Debian changes files. I did not address the meaning of the
> Format field in source package control files, because I do not understand why
> the debian/source/format file was introduced to replace the use of that field.
It's not replaced... the field is still here in the .dsc, but its content
is generated by dpkg-source (and the source format specific part) based on
debian/source/format or the --format command-line option.
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