Bug#953629: debian-policy: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 09:09:22AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> hi,
>
> I'm not fully sure if people really intend to change the 1.0 format, but if so,
> I'm against it. If you do it, please call it 1.1 or whatever, but please don't
> change 1.0, too many tools rely on it's decade old behavior.
For what it is worth, Debian revisions with 1.0 native package were
allowed for a long time. so this is not a change to the 1.0 format.
> Besides that it's also my opinion that we should get rid off native packages
> completly, though that's yet another discussion. Native packages made sense
> when Debian had little or no downstreams, but...
I believe there are exceptions.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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