Hi, (sorry, missed this mail)
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 08:38:58PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > 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. > > So to move this on, how about only "recommending" it? Wouter, would you be > happy with that? I guess you mean 'discouraging' rather than 'recommending' ;-) Sure, that's perfectly fine. I do think a discouraging remark in either policy or the devref, with or without a list of downsides of making a package native, is perfectly okay. After all, there /are/ downsides, and it's probably best to inform those who are thinking about it about those downsides. However, if a well-informed person knows what he's getting himself into, and decides that in their particular case making a package native is the right thing to do, I don't see why this would cause any problems. > I'm not sure whether this should be in policy or in devref or > somewhere else... If we just put a recommendation, I guess we don't > really need to draw a line, but if that makes this better for devref > and not policy, say so and I'll reassign. What do people think? My gut feeling says the devref, but I'd be happy either way. -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
