Re: List of consultants focusing on Debian packaging for Java?

[Pirate Praveen <praveen@onenetbeyond.org>]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 21:55, Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> wrote:
> Le 07/12/2020 à 11:38, Antonin Delpeuch (lists) a écrit :
>
> >  Keep the suggestions coming, this is super useful!
>
> Another point to keep in mind, if you build and distribute your own 
> .deb
> or Flatpak package you keep the control on the release schedule. Using
> jdeb you could publish your first package in a couple of weeks. Going
> the official Debian archive route takes a lot more time and you're 
> tied
> by the Debian release schedule and update policy. If the application 
> is
> mature and stable it works well, but it can become frustrating if it
> evolves quickly.

I maintain gitlab using https://wiki.debian.org/FastTrack

gitlab has a long dependency tree and very fast release cycle. It gets 
new releases every month and security updates are given only for 3 
months.

If more people find this approach useful, this could become official 
some day.