Hi, On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 12:37:36PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > I very much dislike the idea of inventing yet another format. Your > energy would be much better used if you rather added support for > external tarballs to the packaging tools (with hashes, etc.) and turn > this into DEP.
There is merely a tiny overhead in the plain text formats. Well, people have different preferences and I still need time to see whether such proposed formats are fine. I found some existing problem, as what I said in the very first paragraph of the original post. And I think I've already made the motivation clear there. If the motivation turns to be useful enough, why should we reject thinking about something new? > Debian is not Fedora/Arch/... and whacking the debian/ into a single > file doesn’t feel like something that would help anything at all. Just > require git (as AUR4 does). Debian is different from the other distros. Particularly, Debian is a binary-based distribution. By creating such a user packaging repo, some advantages of source-based distributions could be introduced. And most importantly, anyone who dislike the single-file format could just commit the debian directory to the repo, and remove the do_unfold() hook from the header script. That's not recommended but it still work without the single-file format. Anyway the single-file format is only a part of the idea, and we can remove it if most people don't like it.
