Andreas Tille <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 09:04:56PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: >> Mike Gabriel <[email protected]> writes: >> > Is anyone here maintaining blend packages that have not been uploaded >> > to Debian? If so, please speak up. >> >> My point was here: If we introduce a format identifier (like an URL), we >> can very simply test for it and exit with error if it is the wrong one. >> >> The required changes in the tasks are trivial, so there would be no need >> to support more than the "new" format. Anyone who did not get the bang >> can just change it then. > > I wonder if all this format discussion might keep us away to continue > with the simple solution to just do it and break things that are > outside. IMHO it should not stop our progress if outside people are > using things that are intended for inside. I would be very happy if > some of the perl programmers would do that supposedly simple change and > we could continue with interesting things.
Sorry, I don't see the big problem here: The first step is anyway just to extend blends-dev to accept "Recommends" aside of "Depends", which should be simply enough. Then, the only disagreement is that I propose to have a required Format: line in the tasks header; this should be trivial enough as well (as long as we agree on the URL itself). This additional line even works if the URL is not valid yet -- but gives us some additional pressure to create an up-do-date format description (which is IMO not the worst thing). So, what about Format: https://blends.debian.org/doc/0.7/tasksformat.html (blends-doc has currently version 0.6.98; 0.7 would be the logical next step) Best Ole
