On 2021-03-10 02:38, George N. White III wrote: > On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 12:36, Andrius Merkys <mer...@debian.org > <mailto:mer...@debian.org>> wrote: > Many users will not look into e-mail addresses. They will search online > using the name of the software, and will arrive at the same developers' > desk. This might be offset by renaming entire pieces of software, but > renamed packages become hardly visible and all valuable online material > related to the original name becomes hidden from users. > > Renaming should be like "debian-sid-<original_name>" for supported > by Debian packages.
I assume your suggestion is to keep such packages sid-only. Apart from compilers/build systems (sbt and bazel, to name a few), I am not sure about the benefit of sid-only packages. > There are, however, use-cases where packaging is not > helpful to users: > > 1. a package that relies on "customized" configurations of widely used > libraries > (hdf4 and gdal are examples of libraries with many optional extensions). > > 2. a package whose purpose is to provide highly optimized versions of common > libraries for low volume hardware (such as large HPC systems). There are > many potential hardware configurations with new configurations being > released > multiple times a year. There are complicated issues of reproducibility > and > testing that don't have one size fits all answers. This problem is general, not limited to software whose developers object inclusion in Debian. Andrius
