On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:29:48 +0100 Joerg Jaspert <jo...@debian.org> wrote:
> > (Personally, I'm not happy with 3.0 either, I see no sufficient > > benefit to use it unless the upstream tarball is a .tar.bz2. It's > > not cleaner, lsdiff -z is no different to tar -tzf. However, I will > > do what I can to allow 3.0 to work within svn-bp for the few > > packages that may benefit.) > > It would have been MORE than easy to have bz2 support in 1.0. I don't doubt it. > There is > absolutely no reason why it needs a 3.0 just for a different > compression. But that wasnt wanted. Well quite, using 3.0 (quilt) merely to handle a .tar.bz2 is not following the spirit of format 3.0, merely using (abusing?) it. A few packages that I have converted also had patches, so I went through the hassle of converting CDBS patches to quilt patches but removed all the DEP-3 bloat. However, I've decided not to migrate my other packages that continue to use .tar.gz upstream to 3.0, whether those packages use patches or not. I think there was only one package where a .tar.gz was used but where quilt was easier to use for future patches than the old CDBS system, but then the CDBS patch system I was using is described as simple-patchsys and I was trying to use it for some complex patching and quilt would have been a usable alternative even if I'd kept that package with 1.0 and gone to debhelper 7 instead. Of course, once those patches are effected upstream, I could put that package back to dpkg source format 1.0, as is my preference. So, out of 67 packages I maintain in Debian, only ~7 are going to support dpkg source format 3.0, whether 3.0 becomes the "default" or not. I've no intention of converting packages unnecessarily or where there is no merit. I'll do whatever is needed to force format 1.0 when the time comes - I see that as preferable. I don't see how 1.0 can ever be declared "unsupported", just "not the default" - at least until Squeeze+3. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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