Vincent Bernat dijo [Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:48:28AM +0200]: > >> What will happen is that maintainers will fallback to the second less > >> horrible solution and cripple the package (by using an older version of > >> the JS lib for example) to allow it to stay in main. > > > > Why would they want to stay in main? > > [...] > > > I had the same issue with loadlin: it could only be built on MS-DOS with > > the proprietary tasm, and thus got #356055. I thus extended the free > > yasm to recognized the tasm syntax, and patched loadlin a bit to remove > > some extensions which were hard to implement in yasm but easy to replace > > in loadlin. > > > > Then it could stay in main. > > Here is why.
So, in short, this could be read as "it implies extra work". But what makes Debian famous for is that we as developers *do* make that extra work. It is a great benefit to our users, and it's a core value of the project. So core, that it is encoded in our foundational documents.