Bug#986320: Stronger advice on when to use native packages
Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> writes:
> I'd propose the following way forward:
> 1) Capture the discussion thread we had during my DPL term and the
> things to think about that were brought up in the native packages part
> of that discussion.
> I'm not sure policy is the right place for those; I think some of those
> might better belong in a wiki page or dev ref.
> 2) Figure out what the work flow gaps are that cause people to find
> native packages easier to deal with.
> I suspect we'll find that something in our git workflows is not great
> especially for closely tracking upstream git and especially when
> upstream itself doesn't make releases.
> 3) Fix these work flow gaps.
> 4) Then add advice to policy.
Thank you for this perspective! I had entirely forgotten about that.
Realistically, I probably won't be able to drive this myself (at least
soon), since I want to try to dig through the Policy backlog for places
where we're blocking progress (which I don't think is true here). But
even if we don't tackle this soon, I think this is a great statement of
the issues.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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