On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:26:02AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Hi! > > * Philipp Kern <tr...@philkern.de> [2010-05-27 08:11:36 CEST]: > | As far as I understood it, it's not that much about unpacking, because > | the format is pretty clear then, but about packing (or in this case > | repacking) the source package. There you should be explicit in what > | you mean because future versions of dpkg might abort if the source version > | is not explicitly specified in the package. > > Why is that needed? It always was explicit that 1.0 is meant, what's > the need for the change? > > | Now I think the maintainers did outline why they want that in the past. :P > > Why they want it unfortunately is a wrong reasoning - the actual > pending and still unanswered question is "why it is needed". They > want people to switch to 3.0. By forcing to put something into > debian/source/format people start putting 1.0 in there for no gain. I > still fail to have received any real answer why debian/source/format > "1.0" containing is better than no debian/source directory at all.
There is one possible benefit: impossibility to create a native package when the .orig.tar.gz is missing, which happens much too often. Mike -- 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/20100527100047.ga4...@glandium.org
