Re: census issues mails?

[Josef Spillner <2005@kuarepoti-dju.net>]

:: Paul Wise Freitag 05 August 2011
> Please add a comment indicating that no apt repository is provided,
> that you publish binaries and source in an image and a tarball and
> where both of these can be downloaded.

I wonder whether this is a common phenomenon for derivatives to create 
packaging metadata sparsingly or not at all.
For SPACEflight, for example, the effect is something like a "rolling 
debianisation effort": Many things are just pulled into the base image through 
some scripts at first, and if they stabilise in how they're structured, 
they're promoted to packages.
I wouldn't say that this is a planned or desired strategy, but for our use 
case (get research prototypes out to the public fast, upgrade/deinstallation 
not a necessity) it's the effect which seems to happen always for efficiency.

Josef