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Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.17.1
Severity: minor
dgit obsoletes the 3.0 (git) source format, which is unused anyway.
Please remove it.
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Hi!
On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 14:16:36 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Guillem Jover wrote:
> > While it's true the format is not being used in Debian, that dgit might
> > obsolete it there too, that it might have been a mistake to add the git
> > and bzr formats to dpkg and that the formats are marked as experimental,
> > I'd be slightly uncomfortable removing them from dpkg, as dpkg is being
> > used in places other than Debian. It also makes it harder to extract
> > possible historic packages. I'll ponder about this for a bit, but
> > given that they are tiny codewise I might just keep them, we'll see.
>
> I appreciate the caution. I think there is no reason to continue to
> support making them. Could continue to support extracting them.
The code is minimal, and I've seen external projects making use of
it. If this becomes an issue, or if something definitely better comes
along then I might do a staged removal, but for now I think it's fine
to keep it around. So closing the bug report.
Thanks,
Guillem
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