Hi Marc,
while your argument is true and known we have no idea what Harald really
means and thus we are wasting time in wild speculations. :-(
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:15:41PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:50:13 +0100, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu>
> wrote:
> >I have no idea why you concluded that the Debian package exists since
> >upstream is "not good enough". Usually it is better to include a Debian
> >package into official Debian since you are profitting from several QA
> >means which is not the case for random external repositories. My advise
> >would be to specify what *exactly* motivates you to use the upstream
> >packaged version in a bug report and work together with the maintainer
> >to make the official package also fit for your application.
>
> A common case is that upstream will only support their latest and
> greatest version, which is nearly a guarantee that Debian stable will
> never have an upstream-supported package. Many upstreams suggest that
> you update to their latest and greates version before you even try
> talking to them.
>
> In addition, there are even some upstreams that consider Debian's
> packages of their software broken because we dare to add patches or to
> link to SSL libraries that this software can be linked to be upstream
> doesn't like.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
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