Bug#542288: debian-policy: Version numbering: native packages, NMU's, and binary only uploads
Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> writes:
> I'm not sure if in this regard I would have liked the previous version
> better, as the paragraph about native packages is the only one which I
> would like to see extended to explain that it has been observed that
> packages we thought were native to Debian were not really native to
> Debian at all and require modifications in Debian downstream
> distributions, which are harder to do when the packages are native (eg
> modified orig.tar's despite no upstream changes).
This is generally my opinion as well, but I know there are other folks who
disagree, and I'm therefore not sure whether this has consensus. (Native
packages are a lot simpler.) I decided to take the easy way out and note
that this bug was originally about documenting NMU and stable upload
version conventions, so setting policy for when people should use native
packages is a bit out of scope.
I'll therefore propose that we move the discussion of whether to give
stronger advice on when to use native packages to a separate bug. Once
this is merged, there will be some text in Policy defining native
packages, so it will be easier to work on that.
Sound good?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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