>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes:
>> B) Using our own packages ensures that there is no diversion
>> between what Debian ships and what Debian uses, so it can be
>> bootstrapped on an island (which is the link to the DFSG) as a
>> whole, not only the software it distributes.
Paul> There is one attribute of how Debian does things that clashes
Paul> with being able to do this; service maintainers need to be
Paul> able to update code on a different schedule to Debian stable
Paul> and even backports time-frames. Once we have bikesheds this
Paul> will probably become less of an issue.
If we trust our maintainers and the people running salsa we have enough
bikeshed for this today I think. In particular, the salsa-ci pipeline
does build debs in a reasonably controlled manner.
There might be some corner cases--you might want to have a way to verify
tag signatures before deploying.
But if availability of bikeshed is actually stopping us from something,
let the perfect not be the enemy of the good enough.
