Paul Wise: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> I see no reason why not. Whether it's easy to install the software >> outside of Debian isn't really something that Debian itself should be that >> worried about, as long as the packages in Debian do the right thing. > > I'd say we should encourage our upstreams to make their software > useful to at least the rest of the Linux distros and at best the rest > of the Free Software community, this seems to be in the spirit of the > Social Contract. In addition we should probably point them at our > upstream guide. > > https://www.debian.org/social_contract > https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide
Sure, the effort required for that is minimal. (I managed to create a non-Debian specific Makefile for "make install" that uses rsync. Debhelper can pick it up from there just fine.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/535ba572.8010...@riseup.net
