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



On Fri, 09 Feb 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Forcing one to encode Debian-nativeness in the Package version is
> just trying to put too much data in the version imho.

Well, it's either that or change the build tools... either by adding a flag
to the control file, or by changing dpkg-buildpackage to refuse to build a
native package (abort and complain that no .orig.tar.gz was found) unless it
is explicitily told to do so.

All debian native packages (as there are fewer native packages than
non-native) would need to have such a flag [or change in the build command
one needs to issue] applied to their next upload. If the group think that's
a better way to solve the problem, so be it.

I've previously said the build tools could have no default, but I thought
better on the issue. Non-native would be a safe default IMHO.

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

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