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

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@valinux.com>]

Previously Brian May wrote:
> ...and why is an empty diff file, for a small (if not tiny) number of
> packages such a problem?

It's impractical. The way I use version numbers is that I increase
the version number if I change the source, and only increase the
revision if I only change debian/. That doesn't make it any less
Debian-native, but makes it obvious what kind of changes I made
in the package.

Forcing one to encode Debian-nativeness in the Package version is
just trying to put too much data in the version imho.

Wichert.

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