Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> writes: > Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote on his blog[0]: > >> Generally if software is useful in Debian Project it can be useful >> for other debian-like and unlike projects. In particular native >> packages do not offer the same patching flexibility as 3.0 (quilt), >> thus forcing downstream distributions to inline modify packages >> without DEP-3 >> headers. This hurts us, when trying to merge useful stuff from >> derivatives back into Debian, as changes are not split into >> individual patches. > > I would tend to agree that we have too many native packages, though I > doubt you'll find (m)any supporters of the idea of banning them > completely.
There are two native packages I maintain, and I've yet to hear a good reason for making either of them non-native. Making it harder and much much more inconvenient for downstream distributions to modify them is a *goal* in these cases: to make it harder to diverge from one another. As for no DEP-3? I do sincerely hope that by 2013, everyone's using a VCS, and we can pick patches from there. -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87libemq8v.fsf@algernon.balabit
