Re: conflicts between Debian's and upstream's Debian package
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 05:53:27PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> If the Debian packages are not as good as the upstream ones, such that
> you end up having to use the upstream ones for some reason, then that
> also seems like a bug. If you can help the Debian maintainer to fix that
> bug (e.g. by getting newer upstream versions into experimental, or by
> fixing deficiencies of the packaging that are done better upstream, or
> whatever), problem also solved.
There's only one experimental, the upstream can have more branches.
During Debian freeze, an upstream may offer for example:
* the newest release
* upcoming beta branch
* trunk
Another reason is that the latter two will often have nightly builds.
You can't expect a Debian maintainer to make uploads to experimental daily,
while it's easy for an upstream script to do that.
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