[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Quoting Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Another problem that would have to be resolved is security support >> over the lifetime of a Debian stable release. I can see creating a new >> Debian package if some Debian developer wants to put in the work to >> better integrate the software into Debian, but just dropping the >> vendor's Debian package in our archive seems like entirely pointless >> makework that potentially causes problems for the security team down >> the road. > Please elaborate. I'm not sure that I see the need. It seems fairly clear to me. >> For closed-source, non-free large commercial software packages like >> Opera (and Oracle Express, and others) that are already distributed as >> Debian packages by the companies that sell them, it's unclear to me >> what advantages there are in including packages in Debian non-free. > Making the software available to custom debian projects in the debian > repository seems like an advantage. Er, surely dealing with pulling packages from multiple repositories is a basic skill set for projects based on Debian? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
