On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Simon Richter wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:10:39AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Yes. I explicitly declined to add a Lintian tag warning about all use of > > format 1.0 because I don't believe there's consensus to deprecate it. But > > the request to note the format explicitly seemed reasonable to me. > > I think in the long run (i.e. squeeze+2) it will make sense to deprecate > 1.0, as there is nothing that 1.0 can do that 3.0 can't, and being able > to remove 1.0 support from the dpkg codebase then might be a good idea > from a maintenance POV.
I have no plan to remove the support for format 1.0 (if only to be able to unpack very old source packages). I might still want to deprecate the format at some point in the distant future in the sense that it would display a warning when building a source package using format 1.0 but that's about 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/20100325203445.gc5...@rivendell
