tags 618533 wontfix thanks On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:32:23AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Thanks. Jonas, do you think it would make sense to add "Provides: gs-esp" to the ghostscript package to support obsolete and out-of-tree drivers like this one?
I quite definitely find it non-sensible to maintain compatibility for the world outside of Debian itself.
If Canon or anyone else decided to maintain customizations of packages - even if for a world loosely compatible with but outside of Debian - then I would be happy to work together with them using different branches of this one git, as long as their work did not disturb the work targeted Debian (i.e. they did not pollute with Debian-clashing tags etc.).
This is the construct currently in use at the Debian Multimedia team for Debian and Ubuntu, and one which might be relevant to extend in the future for Studio64 (another Multimedia-specific fork of Debian). Reason I mention it here so relatively detailed is that it might be relevant also for this Printing team - which also share efforts across Debian and Ubuntu, not always having exact same packaging needs.
But to repeat the essential: No, I will not adapt Debian packaged for compatibility with non-Debian packages - but will be happy to help any fork of Debian improve to become less forkish.
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