]] Neil Williams | You seem to think that every package is going to be uploaded just for | the sake of an upload. | | There is no way to guarantee that ALL packages in Debian will be | uploaded again by some point in the future. | | If a package does not need an upload - e.g. the only "issue" is an | ancient standards version - then dpkg cannot change behaviour in a way | that makes that package FTBFS.
You make it sound like a package upload is a big deal. Sometimes, you upload for small things, there's nothing wrong with that. [...] | If, eventually, dpkg fails with an error when debian/source/format | does not exist, dpkg is causing the package to FTBFS and therefore | dpkg is causing an unnecessary upload due to the changed behaviour of | dpkg. There is A LOT wrong with that. How is this different to other changes in the toolchain which sometimes deprecate and remove functionality which then makes packages FTBFS? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- 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/87sk5djyiu....@qurzaw.linpro.no
