2009/6/25 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <b...@iguanasuicide.net>: > In <135eeb1d0906250600y552b3c5du980a01d3e3d3e...@mail.gmail.com>, Juan Jesús > Ojeda Croissier wrote: >>On 24 jun, 21:40, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: >>> In <135eeb1d0906241156q69cfcf9fqeb7bfbe733ddc...@mail.gmail.com>, Juan >>> Jesús >>> Ojeda Croissier wrote: >>> >> * The version numbering is for "native package" without reason. >>> > >>> >Well, this is a native package, I think. >>> >>> If you can think of *any* reason that openSUSE, Fedora, or Gentoo would >>> want to use the software (albeit with different packaging) you should >>> use normal (non-native) packaging. >> >>This software was created for a Debian-derived distribution >>(Guadalinex). Maybe it's possible to change the packaging or compile >>from the sources, but it wasn't the initial idea and it is not >>supported by us. It is software for a Debian-derived distributions. > > It doesn't matter if you thought about doing it, or if you support it. The > is free software (right?), so someone could take it upon themselves to > package and support it for a non-Debian-derived distribution. > > If that even makes sense, then the package should be a normal (non-native) > package. Even if the package is quite Debian-specific, if it is possible to > separate the "packaging" from the "software" there are other advantages to > normal (non-native) packaging. > > Out of the 45 packages that start with "apt", most of which would be fairly > useless in a non-Debian-derived distribution, less than half are native. > Using very rough methods, it looks like only 1044 out of 26923 packages > available in main (stable+security+volatile+testing+testing- > security+unstable+experimental) are native and I'll wager some of those > could be usefully converted to normal packaging.
Ok, now I see the real meaning of normal (non-native) and native package. I had really understood that a native package was a package created for the distro (a Debian-rerived distro), instead of a existing software that you packaging for the distro. My mistake. I'll change it. [...] Thanks for the explanation :-) Cheers -- Juanje -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
