v3 Debian source package formats (was: Introductory mail)

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Manoj Srivastava <srivasta at acm.org> [2008.10.01.0302 +0200]:
>         This is a strawman, really. The options are not the giant big
>  diff vs quilt (equally horrible, IMHO). The options are 3.0 (quilt) vs
>  3.0 (git). I would have gone for the 3.0 (git) format myself, except
>  that it does not support submodules.

It's also overkill and a bad idea due to its complexity, as Martin
said. Dig through the threads linked from http://vcs-pkg.org to find
all the other arguments against it, especially by Pierre, who
probably knows more Git than you and I together.

If I were asked about which source package format will become
standard in Debian for squeeze or squeeze+1, I'd have to say v3
quilt, for *sure*. The git/bzr were nice ideas but are never going
to make it, IMHO.

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