Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: Hi,
>> 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. > > There's no need for it to be silent. The idea was raised that, after a > period of silent deprecation, the recognition of source format 1.0 could > cause a warning. It's a well-known fact that every DD out there thoroughly reviews her package's build log before uploading. Oh, wait, no, it isn't, quite the contrary, actually. > The only point I've been trying to understand is, regardless of how > format 1.0 packages are handled once recognised, why the current > undeclared format 1.0 packages can't be recognised as such indefinitely > without any change in those packages. Because there's no way to tell if it's an old 1.0 package or a 3.0 or later package missing debian/source for whatever reason. FWIW I think debian/source/format sucks big time and its content should be moved to debian/control. 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/87iq8f77pq....@sonic.technologeek.org