Re: About source format 3.0

[Eric Lavarde <Eric@Lavar.de>]

Hi,

I'm using heavily svn-buildpackage, so I won't switch until it's 
supported. Furthermore, it makes multi-platform packaging (Debian, older 
Debian, Ubuntu, etc...) more difficult.

And honestly, I don't understand why we should switch "as a team". It's 
a packager's and sponsor's decision, no!?

Eric

Onkar Shinde wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Now that dak supports source format 3.0 and people have already
> started using it, should we jump the ship as a team? I am preparing
> new upstream release for cortado and just wanted to know if now is the
> good time to switch to 3.0 source format.
>
> Readiness of tools:
> dpkg-source: If the package is already using quilt patching system
> then all you have to do is add file debian/source/format specifying
> the format. Nothing else needs to be done. More changes will be needed
> for other packages.
> pbuilder: I have tried converting cortado package to 3.0 format and
> was able to get it build in pbuilder (Debian testing). So I am
> assuming there aren't any major problems.
> svn-buildpackage: As per [1] svn-buildpackage is not working yet so
> sponsors will have to do a bit of manual work.
> sbuild: I don't use sbuild. So I have no idea if it works for 3.0 format.
>
> Let me know what you all think.
>
> [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0
>
>
> Onkar