On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 06:58:41PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 03/06/2014 05:01 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > Script to do this attached; can I have my GSoC money now? :) > > Homer: Can I have some money now? BTW; just for context, I thought this message was to a soc-coordination list (and idling making a joke, I didn't intend to slander our student's work, they do great stuff, and I respect the crap out of everyone that works in GSoC). > On a more serious side note, I think OP's point was to promote a package > format where the upstream developer already does all the work and create > a Debian package on the fly which could simply be dropped into the > archives ready to install. Even when the package wasn't in Debian in > the first place, which is the main assumption of your script, Paule. Yeah, well, I was just showing that this is feasible with a properly defined source package in the archive, even without any built debs. This script was just snark (and has two big bugs, at least) > However, this shifts the responsibility for the QA of a package from > Debian towards upstream which will probably end in fear and loathing > in the archives in no time. Yep. > Turning an upstream source into a working Debian package isn't really > time-consuming and difficult for most cases. However, creating a well- > maintainable and (lintian-)clean package into Debian isn't and takes > lots of care and attention by a dedicated Debian Maintainer which knows > the in and outs of Debian, its Policy and its powerful tools. The proposed idea was basically as much effort as properly debianizing the package. > Cheers, > > Adrian > > - -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@debian.org > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 Much love, Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> | Proud Debian Developer : :' : 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~paultag `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag/conduct-statement.txt
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