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Re: proposed MBF: packages still using source format 1.0



On 28/03/22 at 16:03 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> 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/>.

Yes, my point is that those packages don't have Vcs-* headers, so it's
impossible to discover the above URL.

Lucas

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