Bug#544981: debian-policy: Discourage native packages that are not tightly specific to Debian

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 10:56:43AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> 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?

This is a false dichotomy: native Debian packages can be hosted
on alioth which provides support for non-Debian users as well.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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