On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 02:29:42PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> Given that conversion to 3.0 might not always be
> the best idea just for the benefit of being able to use .orig.tar.bz2 it
> would be great if the same could be allowed for source v1, too.
Uhm, why exactly?
The flaws of 3.0 are that it makes things ugly, not that it breaks
something[1], at least unless you use some very specific layout which
is easy to change.
The cases where 3.0 appears to be detrimental are when:
* you use some other patch system
* you use any version control better than tar
... but all that's worse than in 1.0 are two unsightly dirs.
You can plop "3.0" >debian/source/format, "debian/patches" and ".pc"
>>.gitignore, and trudge on as if nothing changed.
The only real detriment is that you may feel compelled/nagged about doing
extra legwork of tagging patches even when both you and upstream already use
something far superior to quilt, like git. Heck, perhaps even SVN counts.
[1]. Some external tools were broken, but most of then were updated to
support 3.0 already.
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// adequately explained by malice.
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