Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl> writes: >> - New source package format: >> Make it possible to build all packages using dpkg source format >> 3.0 (quilt). > This seems like something that requires packagers to take some action, or at > least check their packages for this possibility? However, I've never heard > about this new "source format" until now. Did I miss something, You missed something: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/04/msg00004.html > A quick read of the dpkg-source manpage about the source format 3 didn't > really help my understanding of what would be required to attain this goal. > Could you elaborate a bit? Perhaps in the next update? The documentation for all goals is reachable from the release goal list I referenced in the bits mail [1], in this case you can find more information on http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/NewDebFormats There are links to a description of the new format as well as pointers to bugs filed for known problems. Marc Footnotes: [1] http://release.debian.org/squeeze/goals.txt -- BOFH #154: You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish (from most tunefs man pages)
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