Package: debian-policy Version: 4.5.1.0 Severity: wishlist Currently, Debian Policy is silent on when it's appropriate to use a native package, but there may be a project consensus aganist using native packages when the software has an existence outside of Debian.
Even if that consensus does not exist, there is probably consensus that native packages are a poor match for large packages (because of the inefficiency of making small updates to the packaging of native packages), and there may be other cases where we can give stronger guidance. Probe the project consensus here and see if Policy should say something stronger. (See #542288 for some of this discussion.) -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled debian-policy depends on no packages. Versions of packages debian-policy recommends: ii libjs-sphinxdoc 3.4.3-2 Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: pn doc-base <none> -- no debconf information