On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 01:24:17PM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:49:55PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > >> 2/ You explain that you have no reason to switch to the new formats. Fine. > >> I have explained you that I believe there are good reasons for > >> switching (I won't repeat the wiki page). Why are you insisting to not > >> switch when the effort to change is so low in packages without patches? > >> Do you have technical reasons to explicitly avoid the new formats? > > > > Why are you insisting that all DDs should switch when switching is an > > effort for no benefit[1] and not switching is no effort at all ? > > > > I don't think that Raphael's mail was meant to insist on "you all have to > use the new source format" but rather to correct/try to understand Niel's > blogpost. Even if you don't like the new source format, I find that > insisting on "not using" it with no reasonĀ¹ and saying that out loud is > quite counterproductive. > > Besides, may I remind you the existence of this page > http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/NewDebFormats ?
May I remind that several persons pointed out this was not a good goal ? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100325123048.ga5...@glandium.org