Re: Meaning of the different “format” fields and files.

2010-05-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 29 May 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: > Thanks for the pointer. I sent a patch for the Policy to this bug report. I > agree with the comment of Manoj in message #15 that the Format field of the > Debian source control files would have better been called Src-Format or > something similar. Do yo

Re: Meaning of the different “format” fields and files.

2010-05-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, May 28, 2010 at 08:25:25AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > On Thu, 27 May 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: > > * In Debian changes files, Format is currently 1.8; I suppose that it > >defines the meaning and syntax of the other fields. Is there a place > > were the > >history of thi

Re: Meaning of the different “format” fields and files.

2010-05-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 27 May 2010, Charles Plessy wrote: > * In Debian changes files, Format is currently 1.8; I suppose that it >defines the meaning and syntax of the other fields. Is there a place were > the >history of this file format is defined? Is it a general format number for > what >we ca

Meaning of the different “ format” fields and files.

2010-05-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I am getting confused by the different meanings of the Format fields and the format file in the Debian source packages and their accompanying files. [In the paragraphs below, I name the files according to Policy 3.8.4 §5] * In Debian changes files, Format is currently 1.8; I suppose t