❦ 28 mai 2019 08:59 +08, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org>: >> People using tools like fpm will never get familiar with our tools and >> will never be contributors. > > I enjoyed your blog post about pragmatic packaging using Debian's > tools instead of fpm, it seems like a good approach if one is > committed to using Debian, especially since it allows for incremental > improvement towards a package that could even enter Debian. > > https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2019-pragmatic-debian-packaging > > OTOH I get the feeling that most FLOSS upstreams are interested in > cross-OS and cross-distro packaging rather than Debian-specific > packaging. I don't have a good feeling for how "sticky" OS/distro > choices are for folks who are building non-FLOSS services on top of > FLOSS distros.
Yes, upstreams are more likely to prefer one tool. However, if you contribute a native implementation that works accross the same set of Debian-derivative distributions, in my experience, they are usually eager to accept it it stays simple enough to not be a maintenance burden. Of course, it helps if they didn't start with fpm. -- Make sure your code "does nothing" gracefully. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger)
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