Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]> writes: > What about doing it the other way around, and change behaviour of > blends-dev for the tasks with a format line and leave the old behaviour > as it is for those without it? This will be more like debhelper > compatiblity levels, and we can handle many different behaviours without > breaking existing packages.
I think we should keep the (countable) number of blends using all the same format, and just provide a conflictless upgrade path. > This way the debian-edu package could set 'Format: .../format/2' or > similar to get the new behaviour, and the others might migrate at their > own leisure. We are moving forward everywhere: Python 2 is slowly phased out, gcc 6 was just replaced by gcc 7 etc. As long as there is no real use case to keep the old format, I would strongly recommend to force all to the new one. The change is trivial enough IMO. If required, NMUs are simple as well. Best regards Ole
