Re: Git Packaging: Native source formats
Hi,
On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 at 18:51, Ian Jackson
<ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> $ dpkg-source -b .
> dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (native)': native package version may not have a revision
> $
>
> It looks like the dpkg maintainers are adamant that dpkg-source is
> correct. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737634
>
> So `3.0 (native)' is not strictly better than 1.0. dpkg-source
> refuses to work in the situation where I am saying (and you seem to be
> agreeing) that it shouldn't even print a warning ...
I have to disagree with you but I consider this strictly an
improvement. Allowing native packages with non-native versions
significantly increases complexity of code handling Debian source
packages. Not even all Debian tools support this case; arguably it
should not be supported at all as often leads to malformed packages
being uploaded to the archive.
--
Cheers,
Andrej
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