Hi, On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Robert Collins wrote: > On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 14:25 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > > > This wiki page still misses a "Disadvantages of new format" > > section. > > > > It's a wiki, feel free to add it. I know some people unhappy with the > > new > > format but I don't know many technical disadvantages. > > The primary one I'm unhappy with is its deleting part of the upstream > tarball with (AFAIK) no warning and no control. (That is, if upstream > have a debian dir, it gets nuked, rather than us collaborating on it).
That's a feature and an advantage in many situations. It really doesn't forbid you to reuse the upstream dir nor does it forbid you to collaborate with upstream to update it. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100221075352.gb16...@rivendell
