On August 19, 2014 8:08:14 PM EDT, Jeremy Stanley <fu...@yuggoth.org> wrote: >On 2014-08-20 02:32:10 +0800 (+0800), Thomas Goirand wrote: >[...] >> Good! For the moment, it has worked nicely, apart from the fact that >> *some* upstream, like Jeremy Stanley, don't like it. I honestly feel >> sorry about that, especially with people like Jeremy and other >OpenStack >> folks which are doing truly awesome work, and for which I have a lot >of >> respect. >> >> And would like to let him understand the reasons that are pushing me >to >> work this way. I also feel like it's mostly a non-issue, for which >> there's no reason to be that picky (just let go, Jeremy? :)). >[...] > >Fair enough! I will admit (having been a devoted Debian user in >personal and large commercial settings for the past 15+ years but >only an occasional packager) that I'm very impressed at how you keep >up with the extreme volume of packaging you do day to day, and >ultimately feel however you manage to maximize your efficiency is >best for everyone. My main upstream takeaway from this is that we >should perhaps be considering tarballs as a target-specific >packaging format (PyPI et al) in and of themselves any longer, >rather than a general release item and stop placing as much focus on >them in release announcements if packagers are mostly just consuming >source directly from our version control systems now. > >Thanks for considering my (apparently outdated) arguments, and keep >up the good work!
Don't assume most packagers approach thing like Thomas. I certainly don't. I've no idea what most do, but I don't think the predominant voices in this thread are generally representative. Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/e9c8c4ea-61ca-462a-8f3b-aca5bae1b...@email.android.com
