On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Totally agree. Our standards are far too high for many upstreams.
I don't understand the disconnect here. Are upstreams not interested in software quality to the extent we are? > I am always flabestered by the popularity of fpm to build Debian > packages (and by the increasing popularity of pleaserun by the same > author on the same concepts). It provides a way to easily build a Debian > package from a directory but produces somewhat crippled/incomplete > packages and is no help to us since it's completely outside of any of > our tools. It also handles RPM (and now other package formats), but I > don't think this would explain its popularity alone. I think we probably need to get dpkg-buildpackage to automatically run some of these: https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticPackagingTools > And there is also the lost cause of vendoring that gained even more > traction with Go but that was already a problem with the Java ecosystem. > I don't think there is much to do about this one. Embedded code/data copies have been a problem since as long as I've been a Debian user, they aren't specific to any particular language community. https://wiki.debian.org/EmbeddedCodeCopies -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
