Le jeudi 27 mai 2010 à 13:38 -0500, Peter Samuelson a écrit : > It's pretty clear that this is social engineering. The dpkg > maintainers want to force every package maintainer to _think_ about > which source format they wish to use. To ensure that, in the long run, > you no longer have the choice to simply ignore the format war. > > I am puzzled by one thing, however.
There is another thing that puzzles me: that people think there is a format war. We have a new format that is better in all respects. Let’s just migrate to it. We can take 2, even 3 releases if it’s what it takes, but there’s just one day when it becomes pointless to support an old format. Face it: in a few years, no one will care about the 1.0 format anymore, regardless of how much virulent they are today. Raphaël didn’t always do a good communication job around this format and maybe not all changes were introduced in the right order. But now people are using this as an excuse for something I know very well from work: change resistance. Whatever change you implement, some people will actively work against it, generally with no rational reason. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `- […] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling
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