On 19/03/21 11:35 pm, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: > Dear DPL candidates, > > In becoming a DD, one of the main challenges I faced was the absence of > a standard way to package software in Debian. > > I've since seen first hand how having a very large number of ways to > package things in Debian confuse and ultimately discourage people that > would otherwise have been interested in joining the project. > > One of the reasons I like team-maintained packages is teams often have a > single packaging standard. Sadly, each team has their own way of doing > things and working in multiple teams means working with multiple > "standards". > > If you were elected as DPL, what would you do about this? Sam Hartman > tried to lead discussions on using git, but sadly it seems it didn't > yield anything tangible.
For a person who started packaging font and then moved to node, ruby and finally golang, I can completely understand your point you are making. But as I mentioned in one of my replies earlier, I do not think DPL should be spearheading technical changes. The changes and discussions like this can be initiated by any one of us. If I become the DPL, I might not be leading the discussion, but will definitely support the discussion. > I understand change is never easy and often disrupts people, but I think > we should be striving for a more cohesive packaging ecosystem. > > Even if we don't ultimately enforce it, being able to point people an > officially recommended way to create packages in Debian would be a large > step forward. > > Cheers, >
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