Re: [tag2upload 884] failed, htslib 1.22.1+ds2-1

"Michael R. Crusoe" <[email protected]> Fri, 5 Sep 2025 00:15:19 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.medical
Message-ID	<[email protected]>


On 04/09/2025 16.54, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Michael R. Crusoe writes ("Re: [tag2upload 884] failed, htslib 1.22.1+ds2-1"):
>> This is a team maintained package, and normally it should be a plain "GBP"
>> style layout.
>>
>> Looks like in 2013 "single-debian-patch" was added to
>> debian/source/options by Charles Plessy:
>> https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/htslib/-/blame/master/debian/
>> source/options?ref_type=heads#L1
> 
> Obviously it is for the team to decide on your preferred packaging
> practices, but I feel I want to offer some suggestions:
> 
> Based on the commit message I think this change may have been the
> result of a desire to get rid of 1.0 format source packages.  Another
> option besides 3.0 with single-debian-patch would be to use the "3.0
> (native)" format (still with a non-native version number).

> I sugest this because the package currently has no patches; so, it's
> not clear that the "3.0 (quilt)" format, which has quite some
> complications, is pulling its weight here.

Pardon me? The packages has indeed many patches:

https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/htslib/-/blob/master/debian/patches/series?ref_type=heads

> On the other hand maybe team policy is that the smae format should be
> used for every package.  There is certainly value in uniformity.
> 
> Please let us know if there's anything else we can do to support you
> better.
> 
> Regards,
> Ian.
>

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