Hi Matthew,
I keep bug #1007297 in CC since this is rather relevant in this
bug report.
Am Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 09:44:24AM +0000 schrieb Matthew Vernon:
> On 04/01/2025 13:50, Andreas Tille wrote:
>
> > Despite this I think it makes perfectly sense to maintain debroster on
> > Salsa in the debian/ team to provide easy access for people who might
> > want to run a booth at some exposition and would like to add some
> > feature to this package. For this purpose I've created a Git repository
> > on Salsa.[2] It contains the fix for bug #1007297 and makes the
> > package compliant to the latest packaging standards.
>
> I have mixed views on this. In general, I'm not keen on 3.0 packaging
> formats, since I think trying to bundle a mini VCS into a source package is
> a mistake, and keeping the git repository as the preferred source for
> modification is better (which in turn is better done with the older source
> format, until someone actually implements 3.0(git) or similar).
I *personally* think this argument does not apply to 3.0 (native) since
you will not apply patches to native packages but IMHO some random bug
in BTS is the wrong place to discuss this.
> I'd be happy with the changes were the package format left as 1.0. Would
> that be acceptable?
My main point was the migration to Salsa. Even if I disagree about the
source format I perfectly accept it since you are the maintainer of this
package and I do not intend to question this. If you want to upload
yourself or want me to upload with the following change:
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index e0ae4bd..3b9cc64 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ debroster (1.19) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
* Team upload.
* Maintain package on Salsa
- * Source format 3.0 (native)
- Closes: #1007297
+ * Maintainer prefers source format 1.0
* Standards-Version: 4.7.0 (routine-update)
* debhelper-compat 13 (routine-update)
* Reorder sequence of d/control fields by cme (routine-update)
diff --git a/debian/source/format b/debian/source/format
index 89ae9db..d3827e7 100644
--- a/debian/source/format
+++ b/debian/source/format
@@ -1 +1 @@
-3.0 (native)
+1.0
my main point (maintenance on Salsa) is solved. In any case I'd
recommend adding some tags that fit to bug #1007297 to inform others
about your opinion. I've seen NMUs "fixing" the source format only.
Thank you for your quick response in any case
Andreas.
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