The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 4625bf8b455f579259f7ac6ed36c3875a58157e7
Author: Raphaël Hertzog <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Nov 11 11:36:54 2009 +0100
dpkg-source(1): indicate the recommended source formats
Until dpkg-source really produces new formats by default, it's
good to recommend using those formats and to inform our users
of the plan to switch.
This paragraph can be removed when dpkg-source produces new formats by
default.
diff --git a/man/dpkg-source.1 b/man/dpkg-source.1
index 98d3386..b22ec68 100644
--- a/man/dpkg-source.1
+++ b/man/dpkg-source.1
@@ -197,6 +197,11 @@ of the official Debian keyrings
and \fI/usr/share/keyrings/debian-maintainers.gpg\fP).
.SH SOURCE PACKAGE FORMATS
+If you don't know what source format you should use, you should probably
+pick either "3.0 (quilt)" or "3.0 (native)". They will become the default
+formats in the near future. See http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0
+for information on the deployment of those formats within Debian.
+
.SS Format: 1.0
A source package in this format consists either of a \fB.orig.tar.gz\fP
associated to a \fB.diff.gz\fP or a single \fB.tar.gz\fP (in that case
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