> Native is best choosen for packages which are not expected to be used > outside of Debian, btw. If I were xine's upstream, I'd package it as > non-native. The non-native format is more flexible. Packaging it native is a perfectly valid thing to do, even better than nonnative. Why? Because the Debian packaging files can be used by anyone, not just Debian. Just as the .spec files are now included in many packages.