Hello, Dmitry E. Oboukhov [03/Feb 6:32pm +03] wrote: > What is the point of Debian packaging? So that the user can > install what is packaged with no extra effort. So that they > have a single place (the Debian bug tracker) to report a problem > in a consistent way, with the maintainer as a layer between the > user and upstream.
These are some of the points of Debian packaging, but not all of them. One thing that's notably missing is the integration work that we do to make packages work well together. That only really makes sense in a world in which dependencies are, generally, separately packaged. We already allow vendoring dependencies where the alternatives are completely unpalatable; there was a TC case about it a few years ago: <https://lwn.net/Articles/835599/>. Making that the norm, rather than a reluctantly accepted compromise, does not seem wise. -- Sean Whitton
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