On Mon, Nov 09, 2026 at 09:19:26AM +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote:
mentors.d.n should probably be clearer about what should be in Debian, based on existing info about new packages in the Developer's Reference. A checklist would be helpful e.g. unique functionality no other package does, substantial userbase, explaining that Debian repos are supposed to make it easiee to install software people are already installing and using through other means.
While we're at it, that documentation should also make clear that we expect the Debian mainatainer to support the version that is in stable for the lifetime of stable/oldstable plus LTS (years) WITHOUT having the chance to simply push a new upstream version into (old)stable.
Many upstream drive-by "maintainers" get bitchy about not being able to upload new versions directly to testing in the freeze period already.
We tend to forget that Debian is usually not the only distribution in which such eager upstreams try to push their software in.
I tend to see the fact that a person who is already familiar with Debian and is ont the upstream author felt a need to have a certain software in Debian as an indication that the software is _actually_ useful.
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