On Sat, 01 Jul 2017 08:52:29 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> 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 consensus? There > > is certainly not a consensus that it's terrible). > I thought there actually was a consensus that it's terrible. I certainly > think it's not good practice. I would recommend against anyone doing > this, speaking as someone who maintains lots of upstream software that I > also package for Debian, and therefore would rather not document it in > Policy, unless we're going to say not to do it. FWIW, I agree, and I also think that this as close to a consensus as any issue in Debian can get. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at/ - Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: U2: When I Look At The World
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