Guillem writes, on the bug but not on debian-devel: > Part of the definition of what's and what's not a native package is > the version scheme, and I've never considered that a Debian specific > thing specified by its policy. The fact that dpkg-source has been > sloppy in the past for format 1.0 does not mean newer formats should > not behave better in that respect, and when the change was done it > was "pretty early" as to not have any major impact, because the > current state had not been dregraded. > > This change does not affect extraction in any way, so backward > compatibility is preserved. If a maintainer is going to rebuild the > _source_ package, that means they have changed it, at which point they > might as well fix the bogus version. There's also no connection > whatsoever between the source and binary versions, so you can still use > stuff like pkg-source_0 with pkg-binary1_2.0-1 and pkg-binary2_1:4.0-10 > produced from the same source package, for example. > > Given the above, I don't see any reason at all to support this, and > I'm thus marking this report as wontfix, and will be closing in a bit.
(I reproduce the whole message so that -devel can see it.) Guillem, please reconsider. Firstly, as people have illustrated, there are situations where a native format package with a Debian revision is a useful thing to have. Secondly, there doesn't appear to be any support in policy for this restriction. Thirdly, notwithstanding your comments, I think this change is a problem for backwards-compatibility. People modifying source packages might be doing so in a context where they don't want to, or can't conveniently, change the version number of the source format. They might also be using dpkg-source to prepare packages for a downstream distro who don't have the same fixed opinion about the versions. Can you please explain what you think the concrete benefit is of this change ? At the moment we have numerous packages in this state and they don't cause any problems. As you can see from debian-devel, there is a clear consensus that this change should be reverted. Thanks, Ian. -- 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/21234.17033.910474.909...@chiark.greenend.org.uk
