* Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> [130209 18:14]: > On Sat, 09 Feb 2013, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > Please ensure that the package version matches its nativity state > > in 3.0 (quilt/native) packages. Having dpkg-source allow to create > > native packages with non-native versions and non-native packages with > > native versions can be quite confusing, so better reject them directly. > > Right, but we have quite a few packages with such versions: > http://lintian.debian.org/tags/native-package-with-dash-version.html
That list also lists 1.0 packages. I did not think it also had 3.0 ones but Guillem found some... > Non-native packages with native versions are much less common so this > part of the change is certainly less problematic. > > http://lintian.debian.org/tags/non-native-package-with-native-version.html The only one there is 1.0 if I parse that correctly. > > (Attached patch does this for 3.0 (quilt) and 3.0 (native) packages, > > where this change should be safe to be done and does not touch any legacy > > source package formats). > > Why do you consider it safer for 3.0 formats than for 1.0? Because 3.0 packages are in my experience much cleaner, as most people not caring for package quality just stay with 1.0 and hate 3.0 with passion. (And I do not care enough about the crufty old formats to suggest any change with them). Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
