Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 07:17:16PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote: >> Luk Claes wrote: >>> Neil Williams wrote: >>>> i.e. native should be a last resort - used only when it is all but >>>> impossible for the package to be used outside Debian or some distro >>>> fundamentally based on Debian like Ubuntu. >>>> >>> I thought this consensus was already a fact and that some maintainers >>> just disagree and nobody forced them to change yet... >>> >>> The reasons why it shouldn't be a native package IMHO: >>> * it's not specific to Debian >>> * it wastes bandwidth as every upload contains all the sources >>> * it's confusing for newcomers >>> * it's error prone for NMUs and security updates >> I'd just add: >> * it isn't in the spirit of free software to make it hard for others to >> use the code - making a package Debian-native when it could work on any >> GNU/Linux or POSIX platform makes it unnecessarily hard for a Fedora or >> Gentoo user etc. to package the code and maintain it in their own >> distro. > > Sorry, but that's totally wrong. Nobody every told anyone to use the > debian/ directory for anything. > >> How are they to know whether the latest native version is Debian >> specific or contains useful "upstream" improvements? > > By reading debian/changelog -- that's what it's for! > >> There is plenty of free hosting that could be used for this code - SF is >> probably the most common, berlios another. > > gdome2-xslt isn't the only package that's debian-native while not being > debian-specific. Offlineimap comes to mind; I did also consider making > nbd a native package once, since releasing nbd twice (once upstream and > once in Debian, five seconds later) is silly. I didn't do so, because > it's already on SF where people will expect it anyway, so that wouldn't > reduce the work; but if I could get away with no longer releasing on SF, > I would most likely turn it into a native package. > > There's no reason why we should force maintainers to do more work to > upload their software twice, just because some people think doing a > native package for non-debian-specific code is ugly. It isn't.
Non-argument IMHO as there is nothing stopping you to release the package as non-native package so people outside debian can use the orig.tar.gz as upstream source... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
