Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 01:31:40AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: >> Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: >>> Le Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 12:47:44PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : >>>> I know it is fancy and modern to think that Debian native packages >>>> should only be used for things that are specific to the Debian >>>> infrastructure, but there is nothing in policy that requires that, >> To be clear (and I know you probably already know this): just because >> some practice is not explicitly mentioned in Policy, does not mean there >> is no good way to decide whether or not it's good practice. > > True. However, if something is not explicitly forbidden by Policy (and > this isn't), and it does not cause (obvious) harm to Debian as a whole > (which this doesn't), there is no good reason why people should pretend > it's a bad idea.
This sounds very wrong, as if it would be ok to cause harm to some part of Debian when it's not forbidden in Policy. I also don't agree that there are no good reasons why it's a bad idea. >> As far as whether this idea is “modern”, I don't know whether “more than >> 8 years” is outside that range for an operating system only 16 years >> old, but the consensus on this 2001-01 ‘debian-mentors’ thread >> <URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2001/01/msg00191.html> seems >> to be that packages should be native only if the package is specific to >> the Debian infrastructure. > > That thread has four people stating the downsides of making a package a > native package; however, several of them also explicitly state the > opinion that making a package native is perfectly okay, after having > considered those downsides. That's pretty much what I was saying in my > previous mail. Yes, though only after considering all the downsides, including having these discussions and people requesting you to reconsider from time to time. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org