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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 06:02:35PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> 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

those don't seem to be relevant for those packages.

>  *  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.

change also has a costs.

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

right, so the severity of these bugs should be wishlist or maybe normal,
but I don't think important would be justified, and serious seriously not.


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