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Bug#542288: debian-policy: Version numbering: native packages, NMU's, and binary only uploads



Hello Russ,

On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 08:52:29AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I thought there actually was a consensus that it's terrible.  I certainly
> think it's not good practice.  I would recommend against anyone doing
> this, speaking as someone who maintains lots of upstream software that I
> also package for Debian, and therefore would rather not document it in
> Policy, unless we're going to say not to do it.

Thank you for your response.  I trust your judgement about this
consensus.  So I withdraw my comments regarding your patch.

So as not to let this bug get off-topic, I'll send you some other
comments about using native packages privately.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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