Bug#950994: Discourage package in contrib to install the real program via another package manager
Source: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist
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I find there are two packages[1] in archive now installing real program using
snap[2]. The two packages in main are definitely against policy. But the
maintainer is moving them to contrib, which has no problem with current policy.
Technically snap is a package manager just like apt/dpkg.
I don't think there is any benefit to do this. People want to use snap could
just install with snap, no need to call apt.
Another package manager in subject could be snap, flatpak, pip, nix, etc.
[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cyphesis-cpp
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ember
[2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/snapd
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Shengjing Zhu
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