Bug#850156: Please firmly deprecate vendor-specific series files [and 1 more messages]
Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:
> But for the Ubuntu case, which is what I was explicitly discussing with
> Steve, the reality is slightly different. The Ubuntu organization is
> reigned by their own rules, and it's a different entity to Debian, and
> how they reach their conclusions and policies is for them to decide, and
> even if how they do that might not be my cup of tea, I'm just not
> involved and I don't think it's my place to question their processes.
> So, if Ubuntu, as an organization, decides that the ubuntu.series file
> is not good for them, and they are going to ban it no matter what,
> probably at their boundaries. Asking ftp-masters or lintian maintainers
> to honor that wish and do that for them would just help them, and not
> change the outcome much. Those two teams could obviously decide they do
> not want to be in the middle of possibly angry maintainers and the
> derivative, but that's for these teams to decide. I'm not sure why we'd
> reject that at the Debian level TBH. It's also in their namespace so it
> seems only fair they get to have a say IMO.
Very belatedly, thank you, this makes a lot of sense. I hadn't thought
about the angle of the most likely vendor to be used in a vendor-specific
series file deciding whether they want this feature to be used at all.
When you point that out, it makes perfect sense to me that Ubuntu should
be able to decide via their own project governance methods if this is a
feature that Ubuntu doesn't want.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
Reply to: