On 04/09/2025 16.54, Ian Jackson wrote:
Michael R. Crusoe writes ("Re: [tag2upload 884] failed, htslib 1.22.1+ds2-1"):This is a team maintained package, and normally it should be a plain "GBP" style layout. Looks like in 2013 "single-debian-patch" was added to debian/source/options by Charles Plessy: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/htslib/-/blame/master/debian/ source/options?ref_type=heads#L1Obviously it is for the team to decide on your preferred packaging practices, but I feel I want to offer some suggestions: Based on the commit message I think this change may have been the result of a desire to get rid of 1.0 format source packages. Another option besides 3.0 with single-debian-patch would be to use the "3.0 (native)" format (still with a non-native version number).
I sugest this because the package currently has no patches; so, it's not clear that the "3.0 (quilt)" format, which has quite some complications, is pulling its weight here.
Pardon me? The packages has indeed many patches: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/htslib/-/blob/master/debian/patches/series?ref_type=heads
On the other hand maybe team policy is that the smae format should be used for every package. There is certainly value in uniformity. Please let us know if there's anything else we can do to support you better. Regards, Ian.
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