Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0
Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> writes:
> The breakdown in terms of packages count is:
> patch_system | direct_changes | vcs | count
> --------------+----------------+-----+-------
> dpatch | no | no | 3
> quilt | no | no | 26
> quilt | no | yes | 96
> none | no | no | 185
> none | no | yes | 78
> none | yes | no | 166
> none | yes | yes | 74
> I propose to file bugs for packages in all categories above, except for
> packages in the last category that are maintained in an active VCS
> repository, because those are the most likely to be be using a git
> workflow that makes it hard to use the 3.0 format (even if I don't fully
> understand the arguments against using single-debian-patch in that
> case).
If you're going to omit the ones in the last category, I think you should
also omit the ones in the none/no/yes category, since they may be packages
that intermittantly have changes and are similarly using a VCS-based
workflow that doesn't want to use the 3.0 format.
A mass bug filing for the first three categories seems like the change
with the biggest potential to benefit Debian, since it's a direct
simplification of the number of ways packages are maintained in the
archive. The packages without any patch system feel a bit less
interesting.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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