Ian Jackson wrote: > Many packages nowadays are maintained by teams sharing a revision > control system. When this happens many others who work with the > package end up using the same RCS to prepare NMUs, local versions, > etc. > > So I think in these cases the fact that a particular RCS is being used > is a fact about the package and not about the person doing the work. > It should be stored with the package. Well, we do store such info in the package, via the new Vcs- fields. I probably wouldn't mind if dpkg-source looked at those and turned on appropriate ignores.. Some people might argue that such a behavior would need to be disabled in some cases. > I agree with this, I think. That's not to say that Ubuntu's ought to > be identical. No more than it's important that the dpkg in debian stable and unstable be identical. However, non-bugfix divergences that change behavior, and that one distro can come to rely on, while another decides not to support or use, can be a big problem. -- see shy jo
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