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Re: Whether Revisions should be required

On Sun, 10 Mar 1996, Bill Mitchell wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Mar 1996, Nikhil Nair wrote:
> 
> > [...] here's something I 
> > wrote in private email to Bill Mitchell a couple of days ago:
> > 
> > > It seems to me that
> > > there should be a half-way house between the two camps ... here's a
> > > suggestion: revisions are not compulsory for Debian-only packages, but 
> > > *are* compulsory for others;
> 
> I may not have responded to this point in email.  I'm afraid that
> I don't see what this accomplishes.

The choice of Debian-only as opposed to other packages was completely 
arbitrary; it would be just as good to say that revisions are compulsory 
for packages with strange version numbers, say ending in .ppc &c.  On the 
other hand, you may like ot make all `extensions' have two `.' chars, 
e.g. .tar.gz, .diff.gz, .i386.deb and now ..deb rather than just .deb ...

The point of these ideas is simply to make the filename parseable without 
offending people who don't want revisions to be compulsory.

Look, I haven't really thought any of this through properly, I just don't 
have time right now; it was more of a `back of an envelope suggestion' 
than anything else ....  All I'm trying to point out is that there is the 
possibility of compromise if people are willing to consider it; if not, 
this discussion is going to just keep going until Ian J. gets sick of it 
and makes a decision, which may or may not be the one you want.

Anyway, I'll leave it there for now.  Just *trying* to be helpful :-) ...

Nikhil.