On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 08:52:29AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
[...maintaining non-Debian-specific software as a native package...]
> I certainly think it's not good practice.
I think it depends on the particulars of the situation.
I am upstream for two of the packages I maintain for Debian: nbd a
On Sat, 01 Jul 2017 08:52:29 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Sean Whitton writes:
>
> > Some people frown upon this practice, but there are more than one of us
> > that do it, so probably worth mentioning in policy as a secondary use of
> > native packages (possibly a footnote, due to lack of conse
Sean Whitton writes:
> Native packages are also used for software that is intended for use
> beyond Debian, but where the upstream maintainer also maintains the
> Debian package. In such cases, the Debian revision and orig tarballs
> represent needless overhead (tweaks to the packaging can use a
On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 04:46:21PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> fwiw, I can't think of situations where -deb9u1 would ever be used.
> Either a selected set of changes were applied to the package in stable,
> which would be +debXuY, or a newer upload was backported in its
> entirety, which would
On Sat, 2017-07-01 at 16:00 +0100, Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 04:01:43PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > > One rarer case is missing here:
> >
> > > 1.2.3-4~deb9u1
> > > Everything in 1.2.3-4 from unstable was in fact needed in Debian
> > > 9, so it was simply rebuilt for Deb
Sean,
On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 7:55 AM, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hello Paul, Russ,
>
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 10:16:16PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> We should probably open a bug for this since it's not entirely obvious
>> what to do here. I can think of three options:
>>
>> * Ask debian-www to pu
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 02:08:05PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Concerns, objections, seconds?
Thank you for working on this.
> +A native package is software written specifically for Debian
> +whose canonical distribution format is as a Debian package.
> +Native packages have no separ
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 04:01:43PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > One rarer case is missing here:
>
> > 1.2.3-4~deb9u1
> > Everything in 1.2.3-4 from unstable was in fact needed in Debian
> > 9, so it was simply rebuilt for Debian 9 and uploaded there
> > (prominent examples: firefox-e
Hello Paul, Russ,
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 10:16:16PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> We should probably open a bug for this since it's not entirely obvious
> what to do here. I can think of three options:
>
> * Ask debian-www to publish the HTML version of that file as well.
> * Change the link to
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