Bug#85270: PROPOSAL] Forbiding debian-revision field for Debian-native source packages

[Brian May <bam@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Wichert" == Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl> writes:

    Wichert> FWIW, if this change gets accepted all my currently
    Wichert> Debian native package will suddenly no longer become
    Wichert> Debian native and get an empty diff file.

...and why is an empty diff file, for a small (if not tiny) number of
packages such a problem?

My only concern with the policy change, is what defines a "native
package"?

I would say, something along the lines of: it is up to the maintainer
to decide if a native package is used or not, but packages generally
should not[1] be native if upstream author != maintainer.

(do we need to include anything on uploading a native package if the
last one was non-native and vice versa? eg. only allow it if the
version number (excluding debian revision) changes?)

Note:
[1] must not?
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>