Re: Git Packaging: Native source formats

[Andrej Shadura <andrew@shadura.me>]

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