On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 09:02:24AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > I'm surprised by the resistance I see to these changes. I see the > approach pushed by dpkg maintainers as fairly conservative with very > progressive changes to existing packages and much respect for people > who don't want to adopt the "new" source format.
> The currently debated change is to kindly suggest to maintainers who > prefer sticking with 1.0 source format to mention this explicitely in > their source tree. I really fail to see what is the burden in this. Part of the issue here is that this was a default enabled lintian warning (it's not any more, but it was). Since a lot of people like to keep their packages lintian clean this comes over as somewhat more urgent than what you're suggesting above. -- 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/20100329094514.ga13...@sirena.org.uk
