Re: Why no Opera?
icelinux@icelinux.net writes:
> Quoting Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>:
>> Another problem that would have to be resolved is security support
>> over the lifetime of a Debian stable release. I can see creating a new
>> Debian package if some Debian developer wants to put in the work to
>> better integrate the software into Debian, but just dropping the
>> vendor's Debian package in our archive seems like entirely pointless
>> makework that potentially causes problems for the security team down
>> the road.
> Please elaborate.
I'm not sure that I see the need. It seems fairly clear to me.
>> For closed-source, non-free large commercial software packages like
>> Opera (and Oracle Express, and others) that are already distributed as
>> Debian packages by the companies that sell them, it's unclear to me
>> what advantages there are in including packages in Debian non-free.
> Making the software available to custom debian projects in the debian
> repository seems like an advantage.
Er, surely dealing with pulling packages from multiple repositories is a
basic skill set for projects based on Debian?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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