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Bug#953629: debian-policy: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages



Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> writes:
> Ian Jackson dixit:

>> The problem is that `3.0 (quilt)' has both advantages (eg that
>> `nativeness' is declared explicitly) and disadvantages (patches stored

> Not necessarily:

> | $ cat rs/debian/source/local-options
> |single-debian-patch
> | $ cat rs/debian/source/local-patch-header
> |Please review changes against upstream code using SCM,
> |see the Vcs-* tags in debian/control for its location.
> |

> (empty line at the end)

> This allows working with 3.0 (quilt) packages precisely the same way
> (well plus a “git clean -dfx” after building) than with 1.0 packages.

local-options means that the maintainer sees a very different view of the
package than any other consumer on the package via the archive.  Not only
is this philosophically a bit weird, it also breaks tools that try to keep
the repository and maintainer view consistent (such as dgit).  I suspect
it is therefore not the solution Ian is looking for.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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