On Thursday 25,June,2009 09:00 PM, Juan Jesús Ojeda Croissier wrote: > Hummm.... So, I wasn't wrong :-P Yes you were. > This software was created for a Debian-derived distribution > (Guadalinex). Maybe it's possible to change the packaging or compile > from the sources, but it wasn't the initial idea and it is not > supported by us. It is software for a Debian-derived distributions. There is nothing Debian specific about mounting or unmounting devices. It can be used just as easily on non-Debian systems as it can be on Debian. This already makes it a non-native package. Native packages are stuff like debhelper, lintian, apt, aptitude, etc. These are Debian-specific and a core part of what makes Debian Debian. > > Probably, if more distros (Debian, Ubuntu, LinEx, Molinux and others > Debian-derived distributions) start to use it and we see other distros > like to use it, we'll convert it into upstream project (maybe in > GNOME) and the package will be changed into non-native one. But by now > we can't assure that the code itself will work in another distro. We > haven't tried it, neither we have prepared it for supporting it. You (as the upstream) not having prepared yourself for supporting it on other distributions does not make this package a Debian native package. As Boyd said, "If you can think of *any* reason that openSUSE, Fedora, or Gentoo (users) would want to use the software (albeit with different packaging) you should use normal (non-native) packaging." From what you've said, it would seem that there definitely is a reason for users of other distributions to use it. > > If you guys still see this as a non-native package, we'll change it, > but IMHO, at least right now, it is a native package. IMHO, it is not. :) Matthew Palmer's debian-mentors FAQ[1] is a good read, by the way. Scroll down to the section "What is the difference between a native Debian package and a non-native package?" [1] http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html -- Regards, Chow Loong Jin
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