Bug#566820: lintian: Warn about missing debian/source/format, advise switch to new 3.0 source formats
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
>
> > We could also add a tag "using-old-source-format" that warns of specifying
> > 1.0 in that file. Obviously this one should start among the "pedantic"
> > tags but its importance might be increased over time once we decide to
> > really deprecate the old format.
>
> I think that if someone went through the trouble of specifically putting
> 1.0 in that file then there is a reason for it.
It could be "No time to investigate switching to the new source format and
want to get rid of the warning".
> Such a person will have been anoyed with the lintian warning about
> missing debian/source/format and will have considered and rejected
> changing to 3.0 (quilt). Anoying him yet again will not help.
That's why I suggested it as a pedantic tag only at this point. But it's
not a big deal if it's not implemented at all. And the at this point the
valid reason could be documented in the overrides file next to this tag.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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