Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> writes: > I'm not sure if in this regard I would have liked the previous version > better, as the paragraph about native packages is the only one which I > would like to see extended to explain that it has been observed that > packages we thought were native to Debian were not really native to > Debian at all and require modifications in Debian downstream > distributions, which are harder to do when the packages are native (eg > modified orig.tar's despite no upstream changes).
This is generally my opinion as well, but I know there are other folks who disagree, and I'm therefore not sure whether this has consensus. (Native packages are a lot simpler.) I decided to take the easy way out and note that this bug was originally about documenting NMU and stable upload version conventions, so setting policy for when people should use native packages is a bit out of scope. I'll therefore propose that we move the discussion of whether to give stronger advice on when to use native packages to a separate bug. Once this is merged, there will be some text in Policy defining native packages, so it will be easier to work on that. Sound good? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
