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Re: Getting rid of 1.0 with dpatch/quilt/direct changes (Was: Debian Trends updated)



On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 03:53:06PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 02:58:14PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> >     166 1.0, quilt
>  
> I don't see what's wrong with these.

Nothing *wrong* as the hard meaning of that word.
But:
 * They carry the usual set of downsides of 1.0 vs 3.0, like:
   - no support for .tar.(bz2|xz|…)
   - no support for multi tarballs
 *  possibility of bugs due to the implementations of the patch/unpatch
    routines in d/rules
 * also similar to the above, you can't assume the state of the
   unpacked source (patched or unpatched?)
 * they are different from no good reason (0.5% vs 94.8%), and
   consistency in complex setup carry some good points by itself

And at the same time I can't really think of any good point of keeping
them 1.0.


IMHO, they aren't "wrong" or "inherently bad", but I believe keeping
them that way is more of technical debt than anything else.

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