On 26/07/2020 10:31, Andreas Tille wrote: > I admit I personally think that having some suffix (alternatively for > +dfsg the suffix +ds is used for "Debian source) is very informative > when deriving from the original upstream download tarball. There is > also a lintian warning (or info?) issued if Files-Excluded is used but > the change is not "advertised" in a version suffix. I agree here with > lintian due to my personal preference.
If features were removed to make the package DFSG compliant I agree that the suffix provides a useful indication. Otherwise it raises a doubt that something important may have been removed, and that's not the case when the project was merely cleaned from unwanted build files. > Could you please remove the now unused Git repository in Salsa to avoid > confusion? Done Emmanuel Bourg
