On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 02:54:17PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] 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. No, he's saying that 16,000 package uploads are a big deal, which is the number of source packages that have to be uploaded in order to complete this transition. I understand better Raphaël's position after the last thread - that a source package is a .dsc + related files, not an unpacked tree, so refusing to create a 1.0 source package out of an unpacked tree isn't a redefinition of the format. Even so, transitions that require sourceful changes to every single package in the archive are a bad idea, and almost always translate as "busywork". > | 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? Can you point to such a toolchain change that required changes to even 20% of the packages in th archive? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- 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/20100527185530.ga5...@dario.dodds.net
