Lucas Nussbaum dixit: >column on https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/format10.cgi )
I’m apparently affected at least for cvs, but that package has another very interesting use case for format 1.0: Its .diff.gz file can *directly* be used as patch file in no less than *two* other packaging systems (BSD ports and OpenSuSE build‐ service RPM), and I *do* use it there. It’s possible that other downstream consumers exist (I was talking a bit with someone from Gentoo but don’t recall whether anything came out of that). So, no, the cvs package will not be switching to 3.0 formats, in order to not break things for downstream users. (Similar cases exist where compression formats for the .deb binaries are set to specific values when they are reused; cvs, again, does that so dowstreams can take the Tₑχ/LᴬTᴇΧ-generated texinfo PDFs from that and skip the chore of porting texlive to the OS themselves.) bye, //mirabilos PS: Can that CGI output a dd-list? I’m unsure I found all… -- Yes, I hate users and I want them to suffer. -- Marco d'Itri on gmane.linux.debian.devel.general