On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:16:06AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:40:09AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > I do wonder how the PTS should cope with this change though, any > > thoughts? > > Looks like the two formats are easily mechanically distinguishable: the > new one has one extra field. So a viable migration plan with no down > time is: (1) patch the PTS code to act differently depending on the > number of fields and deploy the change;
Yes that's the approach I used for DDPO. > (2) deploy the change on the > lintian infrastructure and rebuild qa-list.txt. > > Given that not all future format changes would have the luck of being > mechanically distinguishable, it might be a good idea to take this > chance to add a declared format version, e.g. a first line in > qa-list.txt starting with "#", declaring the format name and version. > That would make it easy future migrations, if the need arises. Or we could do that later when the need arises. > > I don't think the PTS code currently ignore #-commented lines, so that > should be added too. Same for DDPO. I have now added ignoring #comments for DDPO. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121230094321.gg4...@master.debian.org
