Le Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 08:14:24PM +0000, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 06:09:40PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > > We should stop this makework and get on with doing something useful. > > Thanks for providing me with my 'word of the day' (makework) which seems > to me to embody a growing collection of activities in Debian in modern > times.
I agree. Debian is too much about some people telling others to do useless things. We can not at the same time glorify ourselves for our number of packages and our universality, and on the other hand expect that all the upstream sources have the same level of cleanness as core works such as the Linux kernel, GCC, the coreutils etc. Tarball repacking is a practice from the tarball world. Our future if we stay in the tarball world is to be the rock-solid base package supermarket on which others build the real thing, because our intolerance for minor defects will make us unable to collect complex ensembles of specialised packages. Long time ago, one could see the Debian CD as a state-of-the-art multipurpose software repository useful on other systems as Debian itself, but now, more people would not find it useful and would rather clone an upstream Git repository than apt-get-sourcing the not-always latest source from our archive. Therefore, more than ever, it is on the binary packages that we must commit on the highest level. The upstream source tarball matters much less. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140311220829.ga8...@falafel.plessy.net
