On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:41:34 +0900 Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote: > Le Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 01:29:57PM +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : > > > > Just because some developers choose to abuse native source format, > > doesn't mean it's something that should be advocated to newcomers. > > So please stop. Thanks. > > Apart from the point I raised about translations (for which I never read a > complain from the translators themselves), what would be the problems ? Using > a ‘native’ format when there is no upstream tarball looks very appropriate to > me. > I am a newbie about debian development, but I think that you generally want to have the possibility to make multiple iteration for the package metadata for the _same_ upstream release. In a native package every changes you make to the debian packaging metadata translates into a new upstream release, and this is not nice if you think to other distributions too. Am I wrong? Regards, Antonio -- Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it PGP public key ID: 0x4553B001 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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