On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 01:10:37PM +0300, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > > By rewriting the policy you can make it suddenly be "correct" to ignore > > > basic assumptions the entire Debian archive is built upon. > > > > This is not correct: the entire Debian archive is not built on this > > assumption. People have been using native 1.0-format packages this way for > > as long as I've been involved in Debian. This debate, which has been going > > on for at least ten years (thus indicating there was no settled project > > consensus), was always about whether we should eliminate those uses, and > > There is clearly consensus that source format 1.0 is deprecated. This > is evident by the fact that in the past 10 years the usage of source > format 1.0 has gone down from 10000+ to 158 > (https://trends.debian.net/#source-formats). So the discussion in > "past 10 years" you refer to already had a clear outcome.
You are confusing 'unpopular' and 'deprecated'. Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
