Hi, > I think we can all agree upon bumping the lintian severity to > warning.
I am not sure there is unanimous support. Instead, I would like to propose the following compromise (as I have before). > 1.0 native is sometimes better than 3.0 (native) because dpkg-source > refuses to build a 3.0 native package with a Debian revision in its > version number. > 1.0-with-diff has the following advantage over 3.0 (quilt): > The extracted source tree does not contain a diff. The inclusion of > the diff *inside* the source tree (which happens with "3.0 (quilt)" > whether or not single-debian-patch is specified) causes all manner of > problems: it means that only certain states of the extracted tree are > valid. Ian and Guillem: How about we deprecate source format 1.0 in exchange for relaxing the version strings? In the new source format, nativeness is explicit [1] so the version acrobatics are no longer needed. > yes, we should convert all native packages in our archive, > the idea of a native package has been obsoleted for long. As someone who co-maintains several Debian-internal tools, I am not quite sure yet. Maybe let's take one step at a time? Thanks! Kind regards Felix Lechner [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=953554#25