Re: Question about native packages
- To: Siggi Langauf <debian@langauf.de>
- Cc: Henrique M Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>, debian-policy@lists.debian.org, 84754@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Question about native packages
- From: "Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>
- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 20:19:35 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20010204201935.A17620@ysabell.wh.vaih>
- Mail-followup-to: Siggi Langauf <debian@langauf.de>, Henrique M Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>, debian-policy@lists.debian.org, 84754@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.21.0102041929430.2637-100000@darkwing.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>; from langausd@fachschaft on Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 07:35:13PM +0100
- References: <[🔎] 20010204161706.A6357@godzillah> <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.21.0102041929430.2637-100000@darkwing.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Hi Siggi,
>> Siggi Langauf <langausd@fachschaft> writes:
> > Well, as I said the choice between native and non-native is simply
> > a choice of source distribuition formats, not of "status" (at least
> > IMHO).
>
> I don't quite get your point here...
"better" isn't an order relation for the { native, non-native } set.
> > Debian needs to minimize mirror sync pulse, which is the main
> > reason for the non-native source format. If it gains you nothing,
> > you don't have to use it.
>
> That's exactly my point.
It would be *nice* if debian/changelog listed *only* packaging changes.
It makes easier for other people to figure out if there was a packaging
mistake form one release to the next and makes it easier to fix
packaging mistakes without having to wait for a new upstream release
(or without forcing one). If this is a problem (i.e, means more work),
I guess ChangeLog is being generated from CVS log entries, which is in
general terms a good thing.
Marcelo
PS: Fix your MTA. I see 'From: Siggi Langauf <langausd@fachschaft>'
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