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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