Yesterday I touched another package without the debian/source/format file. It was sad: I had to repackage the entire upstream tarball to switch from .xz to .gz only to make dpkg happy and recognize it as non-native. For me this is a nonsense.
Lintian has a info tag for this for a lot of time: http://lintian.debian.org/tags/missing-debian-source-format.html and in fact the package without that file are decrasing, but very slowly, making unnecessary difficult to contribue for prospective new contributers, and in the long term really deprecating the source format 1.0. Someone opened a bug against lintian: https://bugs.debian.org/702671 and I rised myself this concern to lintian maintainers, but it turn out that there are people that does not want lintian to be too pedantic nor to be forced to do as a simple thing as adding a 10-bytes file to their debian packages. In fact I'm wondering what is the rationale to stay with the 1.0 format, given all the benefits of the 3.0 (quilt) format: https://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0 So, I would like to see what is the collective idea of the debian developers as a whole (or something like that, given that there not so much active developers in this ML, compared to the active people). -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 4096R/B9444540 http://goo.gl/I8TMB more about me: http://mapreri.org Launchpad User: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri Ubuntu Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MattiaRizzolo
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