"Bernhard R. Link" <brl...@debian.org> writes: > * Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> [130320 16:25]:
>> As I recall, when d/s/format was advertised as "soon-to-be-mandatory" >> it caused quite a riot among some people. Do we have any reason to >> believe that has changed since then? > Making this file mandatory is the only sensible thing to do in the long > run. It immensly helps new maintainers not suddently ending up with > non-native packages without .orig.tar and other absurdities. And it > comes with no measurable cost to people wanting to keep their packages > the legacy 1.0 format. I agree, but that's not really the point -- the point, rather, was that several long-time DDs responded to the suggestion that it become mandatory with quite a bit of outrage in debian-devel, and several people said that they absolutely refused to add it. Hopefully that's all blown over now. > So what route to suggest then. Bring it up on debian-devel again. If it doesn't provoke the same reaction it did last time, I think we can bump the tag severity. It would just be nice to have a general project discussion about it first, rather than having it appear to be a one-sided initiative on the part of Lintian. Now is probably not the greatest time, though. Everyone's touchier during the tail end of the release freeze. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
