Re: Interest in packaging for Debian

[Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>]

On 3/7/23 13:33, Shengjing Zhu wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 3:45 PM Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org> wrote:
> > While it always makes sense to de-vendor and package and package the dependency, there is no rule/policy that dis-allows vendoring modules as long
> > as the copyrights are correct. Infact a bunch of packages actually do vendor modules.
>
> Not really. Vendoring is not hardly forbidden. But you may be rejected
> by ftp-master by vendoring a bunch of libraries.

Thus far, I have never seen that happening.

> You may carry one or two convenient copies of vendor libraries, but
> it's not good to advertise such for newcomers, which is not good
> practice after all.

I obviously meant to vendor sensibly, and not go about vendoring more stuff even
if it isn't correct. I am not advertising it to new comers either.
 
> Anyway, Mark comes from Fedora, I think we share the same packaging
> policy (name convention, vendor, etc).

Ack.

Thanks,
Nilesh