Bug#702671: please make missing-debian-source-format proper W
"Bernhard R. Link" <brlink@debian.org> writes:
> * Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> [130320 16:25]:
>> As I recall, when d/s/format was advertised as "soon-to-be-mandatory"
>> it caused quite a riot among some people. Do we have any reason to
>> believe that has changed since then?
> Making this file mandatory is the only sensible thing to do in the long
> run. It immensly helps new maintainers not suddently ending up with
> non-native packages without .orig.tar and other absurdities. And it
> comes with no measurable cost to people wanting to keep their packages
> the legacy 1.0 format.
I agree, but that's not really the point -- the point, rather, was that
several long-time DDs responded to the suggestion that it become mandatory
with quite a bit of outrage in debian-devel, and several people said that
they absolutely refused to add it.
Hopefully that's all blown over now.
> So what route to suggest then.
Bring it up on debian-devel again. If it doesn't provoke the same
reaction it did last time, I think we can bump the tag severity. It would
just be nice to have a general project discussion about it first, rather
than having it appear to be a one-sided initiative on the part of Lintian.
Now is probably not the greatest time, though. Everyone's touchier during
the tail end of the release freeze.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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