On 3/28/20 2:41 AM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > On Friday, 27 March 2020 7:08:35 PM AEDT Marc Haber wrote: >> Many upstreams deliver .deb packages of their current releases in >> noticeably high quality from a Debian point of view. One should look >> at them before putting them in production. > > I have a very different observations regarding upstream packaging for Debian. > Most vendor packages are of notoriously bad quality, disconnected from Debian > practices and bug reports, not benefiting from QA and continuous testing, > heavily compromising on policy compliance, not following library transitions, > etc., etc. > > The very existence of vendor packaging often indicates unwillingness to do > the job properly, up to our standards, and maybe even unwillingness to > cooperate with Debian to achieve proper integration. Precisely because it is > easier to do a quick sloppy work that won't be accepted without much > improvements.
+1 to all you wrote, Dmitry. I have very rarely found good upstream packages. Even worth: very few upstream provide the source package (and when they do, it's extremely hard to find). Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
