> On Friday 28 of September 2012 17:07:33 Timothy Pearson wrote: >> Interesting! Are you going to do this in the R14 packaging tree as >> well? > > I assume that the change native => quilt could be used for the final R14 > and > certainly for subsequent SRU in R14. In order to use quilt also for the > nightly-builds, it requires to modify scripts that you use to prepare > packages for nigtly-builds. > > For example, it should need to change the version number used for base > tarball "orig.tar.bz2" because it is not possible to use dash for a > version > of "upstream" package on Debian. Instead of > 14.0.0-0debian11+r274+pr2~wheezy > would have to be used, for example 14.0.0~r274 for the base tarball > orig.tar.bz2. And distribution specific version would in this case be: > 14.0.0~r274-0debian11~wheezy. > > It is therefore a question, whether is now a good time for such a change? > > Slavek > -- As this would require a change of the versioning scheme, now is not a good time for the change. Tim