On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:59:08AM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > "Steve M. Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, for starters, he said the software is "an official GNU project", > > not something written specifically for Debian. > > "Debian native", does, in my definition, not imply that the project > must be mainly intended to run on Debian. > > Policy is not very clear about that, either.
It's not really a question of policy (no one will file a policy bug if he makes it a native package). It's just that making the package non-native makes it easier to handle unless it's really a native package (i.e. written specifically for Debian). For a native package, a small bug in packaging requires a whole new release. If it's not a Debian-specific package, you inflict a new version number on all the users outside of Debian who feel compelled to download the new release to stay on the edge. Since they are not using Debian, they get the very same code they already have, just a new version number. On the side of Debian it doesn't really matter. Separating packaging changes from code changes helps outsiders. -- Andreas E. Bombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA key 0x04880A44 http://home.pages.de/~andreas.bombe/ http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/
