On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Neil Williams wrote: > Agreed, although I think the real bug is in dpkg not being able to > cope without a new file.
In what way dpkg doesn't cope? The change requested by the lintian tag is preventive, not corrective. > The idea that all source packages are going to have to be re-uploaded > with a single 6 byte file is crazy. There will inevitably be hundreds, > if not thousands, of source format 1.0 packages in the archive for many > releases to come - most undeclared. For dpkg maintainers to think > otherwise is hopelessly optimistic. There's no RC stick pushing this > change. And? What's the problem if it takes several releases to get to the point where all package are explicit about the desired source format? > debian/source/format, I'll override the lintian warning until dpkg is > fixed. (Already done that for a few packages.) Doing that means “I don't want to hardcode the format to use, I want to use whatever the dpkg maintainers feel best as default”. It's not really what you want I think. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ -- 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/20100325204259.gd5...@rivendell