Hello again,
I *was* part of the Technical Committee, but "graduated" from it slightly over
two years ago. Still,
Gianfranco Costamagna dijo [Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 03:29:46PM +0000]:
Hello,
(...)
Establishing those boundaries and clarifying what we believe may help
people who are involved in both Debian and Ubuntu to guide their actions
when wearing different hats.
Indeed, but this isn't a decision that eventually a DPL has to make.
I would expect CTTE or some similar team to vote on this, and as DPL
I would not expose my view, to not pose any risk of flaming/changing people's
mindset on the topic.
(...)
- Ubuntu uses Snap and the Snap Store, is that something which Debian
should adopt as part of the improved collaboration with Ubuntu?
no for me, but I admit having snaps for special cases such as
firefox/thunderbird is indeed a smart/fast/good idea, specially to avoid
backporting of new releases/toolchain to stable releases
Again, CTTE is the best team to decide on this.
(...)
- Ubuntu is aligned with corporate/governmental interests that can have
a preference for non-GPL software. What are the concerns
collaborating along that effort? I'm thinking about replacing
CoreUtils with UUtils, GCC with Clang, GnuPG with Seqoia etc.
Again, CTTE for this.
As clang maintainer, I might have an idea about it (and the idea is that I
would like gcc to keep being the default).
(and the answer is no to all, but if CTTE wants to adopt some of all of them,
I'm strongly fine with it)
I'm sorry, I disagree it's the Technical Committee's role to tackle such
issues.
The first one (whether DDs who are also Ubuntu Devs should clearly separate
their actions under their different tasks) is clearly a social issue, not a
technical one, so CTTE has no say in it.
The second one, "should Debian and Ubuntu collaborate via snaps" — If I
understand correctly, the question should be, "should Debian provision so it's
easy to install snaps in your clean Debian system". And that roughly translates
to, "is there a DD who has enough motivation to make the Snap ecosystem work in
Debian?" So, as long as the Snap ecosystem does not have a frontal collision to
the way we handle Debian (i.e. policy violations, forced binary name clashes or
whatnot), it's also not in the Technical Committee's sphere.
Third, the Technical Committee has no say regarding licenses. Of course, if
somebody were to propose to replace gcc for clang in build-essential, or to
remove coreutils from Priority:required and add uutils, TC would probably be
invoked and have a say. But right now, we are so far away from such a
possibility that I don't think the Committee should be invoked in any of the
points raised in this mail.
– Gunnar
