Neil Williams wrote: > Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> tags 457353 + wontfix >> thanks >> >> On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 07:20:57PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: >>> You're missing a .diff.gz, which means that this is a native package. This >>> package is in no way specific to Debian, which means that this shouldn't be >>> a Debian-native package. >> Sorry, but I disagree with this interpretation. For me a Debian native >> package is a package which contains the official debian packaging stuff >> in the upstream tarball. Since I'm also upstream for gdome2-xslt and the >> software has been used historically always as a Debian package, to me >> that is a native Debian package. > > To me, just because a package is only currently used in Debian does not > mean it should be Debian native. Native, to me at least, means "This > package is only likely to *work* on Debian because it needs basic parts > of Debian infrastructure that only Debian (or Debian derivatives) will > be able to provide)." Things like apt and dpkg, basically. > > I have a mixture of upstream projects, some of which have only ever been > released in Debian but not all of those are native to Debian. The ones > that are include deb-gview (reads .deb packages), apt-cross, dpkg-cross > and emdebian-tools which are definitely Debian native as they do fancy > things with the apt cache and dpkg build process. Others like pilot-qof, > qof and gpe-expenses are most definitely not native - even though only > Debian/Ubuntu has included pilot-qof in a release AFAICT. > > i.e. native should be a last resort - used only when it is all but > impossible for the package to be used outside Debian or some distro > fundamentally based on Debian like Ubuntu. > >> Of course if the global consensus will change so that native packages >> are only those Debian-specific I would be more than happy to change >> gdome2-xslt, but at the moment I feel there is no such a consensus.
I thought this consensus was already a fact and that some maintainers just disagree and nobody forced them to change yet... The reasons why it shouldn't be a native package IMHO: * it's not specific to Debian * it wastes bandwidth as every upload contains all the sources * it's confusing for newcomers * it's error prone for NMUs and security updates Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
