On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > Actually, these threads would indeed benefit a lot from a general > summary by the thread initiator. My current short view of them: > > - situation of new source packages format: I haven't followed that > one very much. It seems extinct as of now. Could lead to a summary > (or I may have missed it).
The last summary is here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/07/msg00937.html The whole sub-thread that recently sparkled discussions is about support of context format patches and resulted in a wishlist/minor bug against dpkg-dev. Some initial misunderstandings about the kind of format that Charles was requesting us to support lead to heated discussions about what's the best standard for patches nowadays. The consensus also seems to be that adding support for zip archives is not worth it. Time to move on for this sub-thread, nothing interesting to discuss any more. This thread doesn't change anything for the project of deploying new source package formats and we're basically still waiting on ftpmasters to act and deploy my branch. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
