On Fri, 06 Mar 2009, Michael Biebl wrote: > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown information field 'Format' in input data in > general section of control info file > > Should I file a bug against dpkg-dev for that? > > And another minor issue: vim doesn't know about the new Format field in > debian/control yet. It seems it [1] has to be updated.
No, I should rather remove that part of the documentation. The official way to indicate that we want to use another format is creating debian/source/format (like I indicated in my mail) and not that non-supported field. The underlying idea is that the desired format might depend from where the package is built (from a VCS, from another source package, etc.) and that debian/control should always be the same no matter what source package has been used to extract it. Updating debian/source/format on the fly is also better than updating debian/control and that's needed if you unpack a non-standard source package to ensure that we rebuild it with the same format. > Build-Depends, it would imho be useful if lintian issued a warning, that this > build-dep is no longer required with 3.0 (quilt). Please file a wishlist bug against it, then. :) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Contribuez à Debian et gagnez un cahier de l'admin Debian Lenny : http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2009/03/02/contribuer-a-debian-gagner-un-livre/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
