On Jan 04 2017, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:21 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > >> I'm interested in what things people still find so off-putting to the >> point of not wanting to use the new 3.0 source formats. > > I've been reading this thread and keep being reminded of our > discussion on #debian-dpkg a while ago. > > I think most of the complaints about Debian source package formats are > rooted in a design mistake made early on. The debian/ directory. The > debian/ dir controls the upstream source but is in a subdirectory of > the upstream source. The directory hierarchy is an inverse of the > relationship between its parts. The debian/patches/ dir is another > layering violation on top of that.
That is a point I very much agree with in principle. But I am not sure if a package structure like mypkg/upstream/* mypkg/debian/* mypkg/patches/* (?) would have any *practical* benefits over the current situation, because this transformation could be trivially automated in either direction. Or did you have something else in mind? Best, -Nikolaus -- GPG encrypted emails preferred. Key id: 0xD113FCAC3C4E599F Fingerprint: ED31 791B 2C5C 1613 AF38 8B8A D113 FCAC 3C4E 599F »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.«