Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: Hi,
> As far as I can understand, this is entirely compatible with “absence of > ‘debian/source/format’ always means the package is in “1.0” source The problem is that if debian/source/format is missing for one reason or another, your package will be silently built as a 1.0 source package. From there on, in the best case it fails right away but it can also lead to silently building packages without applying patches. Now, let's say there's a security patch in the pile, and this becomes a problem. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <jbla...@debian.org> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- 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/87zl1spzmf....@sonic.technologeek.org
