Bug#950994: Discourage package in contrib to install the real program via another package manager

2020-02-09 Thread Olek Wojnar
On 2/9/20 8:43 AM, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > Source: debian-policy > Severity: wishlist > > I find there are two packages[1] in archive now installing real > program using > snap[2]. The two packages in main are definitely against policy. But the > maintainer is moving them to contrib, which has no p

Bug#950994: Discourage package in contrib to install the real program via another package manager

2020-04-02 Thread Olek Wojnar
Hi, Sorry for the slow reply, life has been interesting recently... On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 2:26 PM Shengjing Zhu wrote: > > > May not answer you question directly. > > There's something called software center. Like discover[1] for KDE plasma, > gnome-software[2] for GNOME. > > Users can insta