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--- Begin Message ---Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.19.7 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/dpkg-source Dear Maintainer, It would help greatly if `dpkg-source` reported native or non-native package type. -dpkg-source: info: using source format '1.0' +dpkg-source: info: using non-native source format '1.0' There is no information about native vs non-native format in this wiki page https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/SourcePackage Mentors FAQ explains it in a lot of detail, but still hard to understand. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#What_is_the_difference_between_a_native_Debian_ package_and_a_non-native_package.3F `dpkg-source` code does explain the logic either. Detection of source format relies on checking command line flags, and it does not make sense to me. my $v = Dpkg::Version->new($self->{fields}->{'Version'}); if ($sourcestyle =~ m/[kpursKPUR]/) { error(g_('non-native package version does not contain a revision')) if $v->is_native(); } else { # FIXME: This will become fatal in the near future. warning(g_('native package version may not have a revision')) unless $v->is_native(); } https://salsa.debian.org/dpkg-team/dpkg/-/blob/09c9e02046f18f02bf3c3c2533bc557abfdc828c/scripts/Dpkg/Source/Package/V1.pm#L355 It would be nice to see a reference algorithm that detects different package types. It would help people like me to troubleshoot issues with Debian packaging faster. https://github.com/openSUSE/obs-build/issues/633 I was not aware of the differences between native and non-native packages before. Wish I could spend less time discovering this.
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--- Begin Message ---Hi! On Thu, 2021-09-02 at 04:34:33 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2020-12-02 at 07:16:52 +0300, Anatoli Babenia wrote: > > Package: dpkg-dev > > Version: 1.19.7 > > Severity: normal > > File: /usr/bin/dpkg-source > > > It would help greatly if `dpkg-source` reported native or non-native > > package type. > > > > -dpkg-source: info: using source format '1.0' > > +dpkg-source: info: using non-native source format '1.0' > > While I think something like this would be nice, unfortunately I'm afraid > this cannot be done right now, because there are still package at least > in Debian that have a mismatched version format compared to their source > format. See: > > <https://lintian.debian.org/tags/malformed-debian-changelog-version> > > For most of which I've filed bug reports, see: > > > <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=dpkg-mismatch-source-vs-version-format;[email protected]> > > Unfortunately there are a couple of maintainers that refuse to fix these > problems, so we cannot currently have coherent semantics. :( Given that this got worse, and now we have even further conceptual confusion, I'm not going to be touching this, sorry. Closing now. Thanks, Guillem
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