Paul Tagliamonte writes ("Re: third-party packages adding apt sources"): > [cc'ing devel, since this is a rant that involves technical topics, and > god knows I only go on so many rants a year these days]
I think you may have only BCC'd -devel, or something. > > Sometimes there is good reason their > > package doesn't belong in Debian but sometimes it is more about inertia > > in Debian or the upstream isn't aware about backports and thinks their > > package will be stuck at a particular version forever > > Frankly, I have a hell of a lot of sympathy for this. I just wanted to say that while my own messages have been addressing a rather different set of third-party repos, I don't really disagree with the picture you paint. > We have zero procedure in place for the following: And I definitely agree with this complaint. > Go to any mature project, they have a way to bypas the archive, and get > the latest stable from upstream. This is a huge failure. Upstreams > aren't becoming DDs and updating packages, dispite the fact they can > package and maintain things. > > Hell, teams packaging Mozilla-soft and PostgreSQL are DDs maintaining > *external archives* because it's easier. Yes. Ian.