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Re: native packages



Chris Cheney wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 08:32:10PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
> > > but maybe someone else could be so kindly and code it.
> > 
> > The first step would be to muster a consensus that it is indeed always
> > wrong to have no .diff.gz for a package with an upstream author
> > outside Debian. I'm not quite sure such a consensus exists today.
> 
> A more accurate statement would be it is always wrong to have no
> .diff.gz unless the package is only useful for Debian. Not just with an
> upstream author outside Debian. There are very few packages in Debian
> that should be native.

More accurate, perhaps, but much less likely to be a consensus.

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