Bug#950994: Discourage package in contrib to install the real program via another package manager

2020-02-14 Thread Shengjing Zhu
On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 11:47:18PM -0500, Olek Wojnar wrote: > 1) Perhaps surprisingly, I agree in principle that installing from an > external source should not be "encouraged" under normal circumstances. > > 2) However, this illustrates a use case that perhaps has not come up in > the past. As I

Bug#950994: Discourage package in contrib to install the real program via another package manager

2020-02-14 Thread Shengjing Zhu
On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 05:48:42AM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > I'll note there's another case where this could be valuable. > If there is an installer in contrib, you can express dependencies on the > package being available in Debian. > Depending on how that installer works, you may not be able to