Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello,

On Sun 06 Mar 2022 at 01:28pm -08, Russ Allbery wrote:

> 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.

Yes, indeed.

Lucas, as I've had a lot to do with these git workflows and have
probably done the most work documenting them, I can help with any
specific follow-up questions you might have.

> 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.

Very much agreed.

-- 
Sean Whitton