Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 07:02:26PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:
> > That's not their home page which is what they want: if they were happy
> > for people to go elsewhere for their packages they wouldn't be doing
> > things like building packages for distributions they don't even have
> > installed.
>
> IME most projects are perfectly content to point to Debian for debs.
> They're putting up the debs as a service and they'll happily ease it for
> themselves and their users if the packages can be provided in a better
> place.
If they feel the need to do it themselves, make sure they have all 12
architectures, for each of unstable, testing, stable, and oldstable,
and file bugs when packages aren't kept up to date.
:)
Justin
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