Dear Ilya, Ilya Shpan'kov wrote:
> Last 7 years I use GNU/Linux and know that, for example, in Russia the > Opera browser is very popular in GNU/Linux Community. Unfortunately, not > always I can see this browser in the non-free repos. Well, there is a > question: whether Opera is included to your distro and if not - how we can > fix this problem? We are ready for any discussions, technical help or > agreement, if necessary. have many thanks for your initiative. As an informal start, you might want improve http://wiki.debian.org/Opera to some degree. "We" had previous exchanges of thoughts in the past 2001 http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-...@lists.debian.org/msg08128.html 2007 http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-de...@lists.debian.org/msg251312.html the thread on -devel was rather excellent. Summarising from what I understood, the major advantage over a deeper integration of your binaries with Debian would be in a leaner product, i.e. an Opera binary that dynamically links to as many Debian packages already in the system (and possibly already in memory) as possible. Debian would then profit from an increased number of libraries that your product is likely to use and an increased scrutiny of its existing packages. And so would the upstream authors of those packages. For that approach to be successful, you would need to perceive Debian as a regular part of your production environment. A change of the soname of some library would require a renewed compilation of your binaries. This might work, but only with a very close coupling of the binary's uploader with your source code. Consequently, the uploader, a Debian developer, should be part of your team. Since you are apparently based in Oslo, I suggest you to talk back to Petter (https://nm.debian.org/gpg_offer.php) to help with some initial steps towards Debian packaging and guide you and your team towards DD status - and/or you might want to hire him (or another DD somewhere in the world). A plan B might be to contact Canonical and have that integration process outsourced, so you would end up in Ubuntu directly. As a good netizen I hope you to approach the first route, via Debian to Ubuntu, although it is slightly more painful as a start as it seems. But once that it becomes clear to the other DDs that Opera really cares about our distribution, they (or the vast majority of them) will also tolerate the Opera binaries in non-free. All the best, hoping for lots of contributions from the other side of the Baltic Sea Steffen
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