Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive
On 2018-08-09 21:22, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
It's now been five days since I mailed the various package
maintainers. I intend to write up a resolution and then call for a vote
in the not-too-distant future, so if there is anything we have not
covered in the discussion so far, please chime in sooner rather than
later
I don't have much to add, but I want to state my opinion.
I agree with what has been said that the effect of the vendor series is
surprising and causes confusion when people first encounter this
feature.
The reason for this (as has been mentioned) is that it's unexpected that
something would unpack differently in different environments while it's
expected that things will build differently in different environments.
It would be nice if we could carry out a more generic decision based on
this: that source packages should unpack the same regardless of the
derivative on which they are unpacked. However, I don't think we have
the authority for such a ruling, as we can only rule about Debian, not
about derivatives. However, I believe we can still recommend it without
authority.
Apart from this, the concern that has been raised about making packages
instabuggy is valid. I would like our decision to include that this
should
be SHOULD first, giving maintainers a window of time to fix their
packages
and only become a MUST once those packages have been fixed (or something
along those lines, maybe after buster is released).
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Regards,
Marga
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