use debian/source/format to figure out if package is native

[Jelmer Vernooij]

 affects bzr-builddeb

bzr-builddeb currently already has some heuristics to figure out what
mode it is used in. It would be nice if it could use the contents of
debian/source/format to detect --native by seeing if the source format
is "3.0 (native)".

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Also it would be nice to check

debian/source/options

for compression type & options and use those for creating orig tarball
in split mode to pick bz2, gz, lzma etc.

[James Westby (james-w)]

Good idea.

Dmitrijs, your ideas are good too, would you file a new bug for them though please?

Thanks,

James

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

I wonder if it would perhaps make sense to put this sort of code into python-debian?

[James Westby (james-w)]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:51:26 -0000, Jelmer Vernooij <email address hidden> wrote:
> I wonder if it would perhaps make sense to put this sort of code into
> python-debian?

Yeah, I think that would make sense.

Thanks,

James