On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:27:40PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:00:47PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > 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. > > Now you need to be more verbose. The dpkg-source manpage still lists 1.0 > as supporting both patched and native.
Let's replace "possible" with "hypothetical", then. That's the only benefit i can find. 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/20100527103541.ga4...@glandium.org
