On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Joey Hess wrote: > The exciting potential of dpkg source v3 to me is that it potentially > opens an area that had stifled most innopvation, by allowing subtypes of > the source format to be developed. But this area is still relatively > closed to innovation; dpkg's maintainers still need to sign off on new > formats, and the v3 source handling in dak is AIUI unneccessarily > limited/hardcoded to only supporting certian subtypes.
I am not opposed on merging code improvements concerning alternative source formats and I'm not opposed to adding support for new source formats either. While dak needs some modification for each alternative source format to allow, the code has been modified in ways that make it easy to add support of supplementary source formats. That said my personal opinion is however that we should be very cautious before deciding to allow those alternatives formats on ftp-master. I strongly believe that we should not have many source formats in Debian and that the right long term approach for VCS based maintainance is not to have the VCS in the source package but rather to generate the source package out of the VCS. And I would rather encourage people to work in that direction; I would like dpkg-dev to provide tools to do precisely this but it's still far from being at the top of my TODO list currently. Any help welcome as usual. Cheers, -- Raphaƫl Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100326200913.ga10...@rivendell