On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Raphaël Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> writes: > > > We could also add a tag "using-old-source-format" that warns of specifying > > 1.0 in that file. Obviously this one should start among the "pedantic" > > tags but its importance might be increased over time once we decide to > > really deprecate the old format. > > I think that if someone went through the trouble of specifically putting > 1.0 in that file then there is a reason for it.
It could be "No time to investigate switching to the new source format and want to get rid of the warning". > Such a person will have been anoyed with the lintian warning about > missing debian/source/format and will have considered and rejected > changing to 3.0 (quilt). Anoying him yet again will not help. That's why I suggested it as a pedantic tag only at this point. But it's not a big deal if it's not implemented at all. And the at this point the valid reason could be documented in the overrides file next to this tag. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
