Re: Recent changes in dpkg
]] Neil Williams
| You seem to think that every package is going to be uploaded just for
| the sake of an upload.
|
| There is no way to guarantee that ALL packages in Debian will be
| uploaded again by some point in the future.
|
| If a package does not need an upload - e.g. the only "issue" is an
| ancient standards version - then dpkg cannot change behaviour in a way
| that makes that package FTBFS.
You make it sound like a package upload is a big deal. Sometimes, you
upload for small things, there's nothing wrong with that.
[...]
| If, eventually, dpkg fails with an error when debian/source/format
| does not exist, dpkg is causing the package to FTBFS and therefore
| dpkg is causing an unnecessary upload due to the changed behaviour of
| dpkg. There is A LOT wrong with that.
How is this different to other changes in the toolchain which sometimes
deprecate and remove functionality which then makes packages FTBFS?
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