Hi lintian maintainers,

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
> As part of the plan to have the new source formats as the default formats in
> Debian I would like lintian to give a warning when debian/source/format
> doesn't exist, it could be named "missing-debian-source-format".

Do you want a patch for this? If yes, should it be a new check file or do
you want it integrated in one of the existing check file?

> 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.
> 
> It might also be a good idea to have "unknown-source-format" when
> debian/source/format contains something else than "1.0", "2.0", "3.0
> (quilt)", "3.0 (native)", "3.0 (git)", "3.0 (bzr)". This one should result
> in an error.

Any opinion on whether you are interested by those too?

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog



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