On Fri, 09 Apr 2021 21:30:45 +0200 Linux-Fan <ma_sys...@web.de> wrote:
> Celejar writes: > > > On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 20:48:01 +0300 > > Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Vi, 09 apr 21, 08:02:46, Celejar wrote: > > > > What about cases where the software simply isn't in Debian at all? > > > > Recently, I've used IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio, and I'd like to > > > > set up an OwnCloud server when I get a chance. These, and many other > > > > complex / fast-changing applications aren't in Debian, but are > > > > available in containerized app formats. > > [...] > > > Have the packages I'm interested in not been in unstable because > > potential maintainers knew they couldn't make it into stable (and now > > that there's fasttrack, they'll get into unstable), or is there some > > other reason they can't be in unstable (and hence can't make it to > > fasttrack either)? > > I do not know it for the excact packages you mentioned but to me it seems > quite plausible that there are modern open source applications which cannot > be easily included in Debian (not even in unstable). AFAICT it boils down to > the fact that some of that applications' build processes do not meet > Debian's high quality standards (formally: Debian Policy). For NextCloud, see this thread (there's some discussion of the fasttrack option as well): https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=835086 Celejar
