On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:43:36PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 05/24/2010 11:05 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > * The plan concerning dpkg-source and the default source format has been > > clarified. In the long term, the default format will disappear and > > debian/source/format will become mandatory. The lintian tag > > missing-debian-source-format[2] will help us track that. > > Which will force developers to touch most of the packages in the archive just > to > realize this? Sorry, but that's insane. You should not try to force people > into > migrating to some new format because *you* think it is better. This is not a > decision which should be decided by the dpkg maintainers - instead it needs to > be discussed within the developers and maintainers. While the new format > provides some advantages when it comes to the handling of patches, the 1.0 > format is still much more flexible to use - for example it does not require an > existing tarball to build a package, which is very useful for testing. > You know that there are a lot of arguments against the 3.0 format out there, > so > please do not enforce such changes without discussing them first.
I think you're misreading the announcement. What will change is that declaring the format (either 1.0 or 3.0 in whatever variant) will be required, not migrating to the new formats. regards, iustin
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