dpkg source format 3 (quilt) packages, was: RFS: a52dec.git

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Do, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:33:35 (CET), Fabian Greffrath wrote:

> Am 10.12.2009 16:02, schrieb Felipe Sateler:
>> On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 09:38 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>> Rationale: switching to v3 at this point introduces even more
>>> inconsistency in our packaging and obviously our advocated tool
>>> 'git-buildpackage' doesn't cope with this new format properly yet.
>>> While I am not opposed at all to the new format, and besides, I'm really
>>> looking forward using it, I don't think that our team is ready for it yet.
>>
>> I agree. There is no hurry to move to 3.0, so we can wait for tools to
>> adapt to it.
>
> Looks like this is finally happening now:
>
> <http://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Git_buildpackage_and_3_0_source_format.html>

It still doesn't seem to integrate very well with 'Format: 3.0 (quilt)'
packages, I suspect it works much better with 'Format: 3.0 (native)'
ones. still, a very interesting development, let's keep an eye on that.

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