Package: tech-ctte Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: o...@debian.org Control: block 970717 by -1
Dear Technical Committee, Apologies that we were not able to resolve the problem without your help. I seek your judgement regarding excessive, unnecessary and unjustifiable vendoring of private libraries in Kubernetes package: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=970717 Some relevant argumentation can be found in https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/03/msg00359.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/03/msg00400.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/03/msg00441.html In short, myself and Golang packaging team spent years on stabilising Golang ecosystem of packaged libraries for re-use by Golang software. To the best of my knowledge, all packaged Golang software, regardless of its sophistication, use some packages libraries. Except Kubernetes, that disconnected itself from cooperation by not using any packaged libraries, instead exclusively using only private libraries in numbers greater than any Debian package ever used. As a former Kubernetes maintainer and a developer who originally introduced Kubernetes to Debian, I know that it could be maintained with only few (or several) private libraries at most. Current state of Kubernetes package is in violation of ftp-master's policy for inclusion of new packages to Debian. Thank you. This matter is not urgent. -- Regards, Dmitry Smirnov --- We do our friends no favors by pretending not to notice flaws in their work, especially when those who are not their friends are bound to notice these same flaws. -- Sam Harris
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