On 18.06.20 20:12, Andreas Tille wrote:
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 03:51:15PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote:... Opinions?Isn't this a question you should ask upstream whether they like patches or not? Everything we could do is pure speculation IMHO.
More like if there are technical reasons that I do not see why an existing Debian package should be inferior to what is freshly retrieved via pip or from CRAN or ... whatever. Somewhat related is the idea to send patches to README.md files on github to indicate that the package can be installed on Debian and Ubuntu. We should not bother all packages out there with such a patch, but for some this may be appropriate. Maybe we all can start with packages to which we are already connected in some way, like to which we have already contributed or of which we know upstream personally. And then we see how this goes. Cheers, Steffen