Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2016-02-27 13:08:37) >> 2. Needless forking is bad. There is no consent on what is >> "needless" though. My point is that having multiple copies of a >> thing that are all treated as source leads to problems. In >> Debian, we recognize that and one effect of that is that we don't >> want bundled libraries in packages. In the greater free software >> community, not everyone sees it this way. Having this opinion in >> Debian, I think we should use our influence to try to push >> upstreams the right way. That means we should package real >> upstream if there are multiple sources to choose from. Another >> reason for doing this is that future code duplication in Debian is >> automatically prevented. In your example: if someone needs the >> serverside version of the package, they would package >> node-handlebars and then we have two versions of the code in >> Debian. If the real upstream was used to begin with, that problem >> would have been avoided. > > Right. That is the issue. Question I raise is how to deal with it? > > I agree with you that the real upstream should be used when possible - > but is that just the personal opinion of two Debian developers which > should not be imposed on others (read: at most file wishlist > bugreports) or do we have rough consensus in Debian to make it into > Policy, so that issues of that kind can be treated as more severe > bugs? Oh - I just discovered that this _is_ covered by Policy §4.13 already. I will file severe bugreports whenever I stumble upon this kindof issue in the future. Thanks for helping out! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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