> 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