reassign 544981 developers-reference retitle 544981 Discourage native packages that are not tightly specific to Debian thanks
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <po...@debian.org> writes: > Given the recent thread in debian-devel[1], I think we should document > in policy that packages that are not tightly related to Debian shouldn't > be native. > The motivations for discouraging native packages not Debian specific are > that it makes it harder for other parties to make advantage of it. For > example, they would find new "upstream" releases that fixed Debian > packaging bugs, or that were NMUs. Also, where should they report bugs? > In bugs.debian.org? > Native packages make sense when the package is pretty much only useful > for Debian (and Debian derivatives), e.g. dpkg or apt, but not for > unrelated packages. After reviewing the bug log again, I think this is a best practices issue and Policy isn't the best place to talk about this. I'm accordingly reassigning this bug to the Developer's Reference, which I think is a better place to document the issues and tradeoffs. I do think this is a good thing to document, since it comes up all the time in -mentors. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
