Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 04:14:57PM -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> writes:
> 
> >
> > The Committee recognises that there is a need for packages to behave
> > differently when built on different distributions, but this should be
> > done as part of the build process, using current and future practices
> > such as patches with conditional behaviour, patching of files during the
> > build, rather than at source unpacking time.
> 
> Does it need to be said that producing different source packages for
> different distributions is also perfectly acceptable?

I think that "different distributions" is by definition outside the authority
of the TC, and therefore it shouldn't even be mentioned in the resolution ;-)

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