On 10/22/2011 07:41 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 01:29:57PM +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit : > >> Just because some developers choose to abuse native source format, >> doesn't mean it's something that should be advocated to newcomers. >> So please stop. Thanks. >> > Apart from the point I raised about translations (for which I never read a > complain from the translators themselves), what would be the problems ? Using > a ‘native’ format when there is no upstream tarball looks very appropriate to > me. > > Cheers, > If there's no upstream tarball, just create one. Using the native format is *very* annoying for derivative distributions, please don't do that unless you *know* that there is *absolutely no chance* that your package will migrate to a derivative distribution like Ubuntu or others.
On 10/22/2011 09:59 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > This is excactly why I am limiting my recommendation to the case where there > is > no upstream release as tarball. In that sense, a new source package is still > a > downstream event that is not indicative of an upstream release. > This isn't the reason to choose a native format. See above. > I am not sure that it is a situation that is to be avoided by newcomers. > Newcomers tend to work on new software, and new software tends to be > distributed on source hubs, increasingly without tarballs, instead of source > forges with tarballs. This isn't the reason to choose a native format. See above. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ea3974e.9090...@debian.org
