On Wed, Mar 23 2016, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 01:32:59PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
>> Adam Borowski writes ("Re: a poll for Dgit workflows"):
>> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:19:01AM +0100, Daniel Stender wrote:
>> > > Ah yes, source format 1.0 fits better here. Thanks for the pointer and
>> > > comments (Manoj, too).
>> >
>> > Please don't use source format 1.0, it sucks. Instead, you can:
>> > echo single-debian-patch >debian/source/options
>> > which gives you all upsides of 3.0 without the big downside, aka quilt.
And creates a source package that does not correspond to my
repository. I don’t need to have a ./debian/patches in my repository;
all that information, along with a rich history of changes, is already
in git.
I admit, I don’t much care whether the source debian.tar.xz
reflects my repository or not, if it didn’t leave artifacts that
dirtied my working tree when creating the source package. I also
sometimes unpack debian source packages on machines without dpkg on
them; source format 1.0 makes it somewhat easier.
And it does interfere with using dgit as a publication
mechanism.
>> 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 source format 1.0 can also use .xz, if it so desired, right?
Or a source format 1.1? Perhaps at some point someone, perhaps I, will
take a stab at that.
And, if I ma channel Marco here, multiple tarballs and purging
upstream debian/ does nothing for me. But there is nothing in that that
is tied to source format 3.0 (quilt); in theory all these features, if
deemed important enough an itch to scratch, can be addressed.
As long as arbitrarily serialized patch sets are not my
preferred form of modification, ./debian/patches seems like busy work.
manoj
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