Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> writes: > To avoid unpleasant situations like this, I recommend to never combine > roles of upstream and Debian maintainer.
In contrast, I usually try to convince upstream to maintain their debian packages (under the debian-astro team maintenance hood) themself. > If you wrote something cool, instead of uploading it to ftp-master, > write a blog post about it. If it's really as awesome as you think it > is, somebody else will package it for Debian. This may be true for mainstream packages, but not for those that are targeted to a limited audience only. You will just not find many astronomers who want to maintain Debian packages (at least, I still didn't find them), and using upstreams legitime interest in getting his software easily installable is IMO a good way to broaden the software base in my field. Sure, this is a bit different from the case discussed in that thread; however since you raised the "never", I would answer with "it depends". Best regards Ole
