Bug#544981: debian-policy: Discourage native packages that are not tightly specific to Debian
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.3.0
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
Given the recent thread in debian-devel[1], I think we should document in
policy that packages that are not tightly related to Debian shouldn't be
native.
The motivations for discouraging native packages not Debian specific are
that it makes it harder for other parties to make advantage of it. For
example, they would find new "upstream" releases that fixed Debian
packaging bugs, or that were NMUs. Also, where should they report bugs?
In bugs.debian.org?
Native packages make sense when the package is pretty much only useful
for Debian (and Debian derivatives), e.g. dpkg or apt, but not for unrelated
packages.
Cheers,
Emilio
[1] starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/09/msg00079.html
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-rc6-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
debian-policy depends on no packages.
debian-policy recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debian-policy suggests:
ii doc-base 0.9.3 utilities to manage online documen
-- no debconf information
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