Re: a poll for Dgit workflows

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Adam Borowski writes ("Re: a poll for Dgit workflows"):
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 01:32:59PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Please don't use source format `3.0 (quilt)', it sucks.
> 
> Could you tell us what other downsides it has, besides quilt?
> All other differences I'm aware of are upsides: .xz, multiple tarballs
> or ambivalent: purging upstream debian/

The main problem is that it can't be safely manipulated without
knowledge of the quilt system.  So it is not really a source package
format.  It's an attempt at a version control system.

(Purging upstream debian/ is only a feature because none of our source
formats cope with deleting files.)

Ian.