Bug#1107137: Distinguish "native source packsge" from "native version number"
On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 01:10:37PM +0300, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> > > 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.
You are confusing 'unpopular' and 'deprecated'.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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