Re: Of the use of native packages for programs not specific to Debian.
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 07:46:08AM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
> On native package the debian/changelog is also used for upstream
> changelog: upstreams tend to package their packages as native.
[...]
> Thus non debian specific package, which are also native,
> should (must on GPL licensed packages) have a separate
> "upstream" changelog.
That doesn't follow. You're assuming it's going to be impossible to keep
the original debian/changelog file, and/or that the only way to package
something that an upstream has packaged as native is to package it as
non-native.
If I'm an upstream and a Debian maintainer for a particular package, and
a downstream distribution wants to modify my package, then I think it's
fairly reasonable for them to just modify the package, without having to
repackage it entirely.
People fork software *all the time*. This is no different.
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