Bug#1107137: Distinguish "native source packsge" from "native version number"
> > By rewriting the policy you can make it suddenly be "correct" to ignore
> > basic assumptions the entire Debian archive is built upon.
>
> This is not correct: the entire Debian archive is not built on this
> assumption. People have been using native 1.0-format packages this way for
> as long as I've been involved in Debian. This debate, which has been going
> on for at least ten years (thus indicating there was no settled project
> consensus), was always about whether we should eliminate those uses, and
There is clearly consensus that source format 1.0 is deprecated. This
is evident by the fact that in the past 10 years the usage of source
format 1.0 has gone down from 10000+ to 158
(https://trends.debian.net/#source-formats). So the discussion in
"past 10 years" you refer to already had a clear outcome.
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