Hi, On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 03:35:49PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > > I also think that we shouldn't encourage non-Debian repositories too > much. It makes sense for fast-moving projects like Jenkins who refactor > their entire codebase every three months, but I'd really prefer upstream > authors to be involved in the long term support. >
That is the idea of getting non-Debian repostories to behave humble. Currently is an extra repository a trojan horse that is inside the city wall. Nicelookingproject might be very tempted to push / enforce their modified packages to get "foo" working without putting effort in the rest of the eco-system they are using. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven