Re: Interoperability among .deb implementations

[Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:46:31PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> 
> 1. Some sort of way to identify the source of a package.  Maintainer

Yes.

> 2. Some master registry of package names.

Yes. Or, a namespace mechanism.

So that package: bind in namespace:corel is really package corel/bind,
not debian/bind.

> 3. Some agreement that redistributed packages will not be gratuitously
> repackaged or modified,

Sign them, if that's important?

> perhaps reinforced by an agreement that
> DFSG-free packages will be integrated into Debian and that other
> vendors will be able to provide non-voting Debian maintainers for
> DFSG-free packages.  

Why non-voting?  If the maintainers are willing to agree to the DFSG,
then their work need not be incompatible with being full members.

Jules

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