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Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0



Hello,

On Tue 15 Mar 2022 at 06:26PM +01, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

> On 15/03/22 at 15:36 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
>> At least the following packages of which I am the maintainer or
>> sponsor were includined in the MBF, despite the fact that they are 1.0
>> native packages with Debian revision:
>>
>>    its-playback-time
>>    spigot
>>    vm
>>    vtwm
>>    chroma
>>
>> Clearly the it makes no sense to have filed bugs saying "please switch
>> to this other source format" when the other source format cannot
>> represent the package.
>
> Those five packages:
> - are indeed native packages with Debian revisions
> - are not maintained in a VCS (or the VCS is not advertized using
>   Vcs-*).
>
> So there's no easy way to understand how the package differs from
> upstream (no patch serie, no VCS history). I don't think that it's
> something desirable.
> (if the packages had declared a VCS, they would have joined cachefilesd,
> userv-utils, and vde2 in the "native package with a Debian revision
> maintained in a VCS" category.)

They have detailed history on dgit-repos.
E.g. <https://browse.dgit.debian.org/its-playback-time.git/>.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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