On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:32:47AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:10:19AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > What mandatory conversion to the new format in the long run? > > As I see it: currently there is version 0 and 1. Suppose one > day version 2 is added. Requirement for version 2 will include > requirement for version 1. If you want to implement version 2, > you will have to implement version 1 even if it is not useful, > say for a Arch: all source package. > > However, if you don't need version 2, you can stay to version 0. > > As a parallel, some of my packages are still using DH_COMPAT=1 > debhelper interface, and no one is complaining.
Although I keep seeing inexperienced developers converting packages to debhelper version 4 in NMUs. :-/ It's newer and shinier, so it must be better, right? (And I wonder how many versioned build-deps on debhelper go missing in the process, how many duplicate conffiles get created by incautious moves to DH_COMPAT >= 3, and so on ... there's a reason we discourage cosmetic changes in NMUs.) If we're adding optional features, doing so in a way that doesn't confuse people into believing that all packages need to use them would definitely be a good thing, I think. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
