On Sun, 02 Aug 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: > I see that .bzip2 and .lzma are also supported compression methods for the 3.0 > (native) format as well as for the binary packages. But I do not think it > would > be useful to add zip to this list. It seems to me that the only thing needed > is > the capacity to unpack the original upstream sources. In that case there would > not be a need for a Lenny support, isn't it?
As stated elsewhere, its's good to be able to unpack all source packages with the current stable dpkg-source. > The patch is not in unified format, which causes the failure of > dpkg-buildpackage. It is trivial to refresh it with quilt to the unified > format, but this introduces a divergence with upstream that I would prefer to > avoid, because it makes it difficult for others to verify that we did not > modify it. Can you support in the format ’3.0 (quilt)’ patches that are > accepted by default quilt installation? No. I really prefer that we uniformize the patches that we provide through debian/patches/ as it's an external interface as well (and for people reviewing patches, unified format is certainly the most common format). Furthermore it would require disabling quite a lot of checks that are currently in place. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
