Re: conflicts between Debian's and upstream's Debian package
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:50:13 +0100, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>
wrote:
>I have no idea why you concluded that the Debian package exists since
>upstream is "not good enough". Usually it is better to include a Debian
>package into official Debian since you are profitting from several QA
>means which is not the case for random external repositories. My advise
>would be to specify what *exactly* motivates you to use the upstream
>packaged version in a bug report and work together with the maintainer
>to make the official package also fit for your application.
A common case is that upstream will only support their latest and
greatest version, which is nearly a guarantee that Debian stable will
never have an upstream-supported package. Many upstreams suggest that
you update to their latest and greates version before you even try
talking to them.
In addition, there are even some upstreams that consider Debian's
packages of their software broken because we dare to add patches or to
link to SSL libraries that this software can be linked to be upstream
doesn't like.
Greetings
Marc
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