Ahoj, Dňa Sun, 21 Sep 2014 12:37:03 +0100 Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> napísal: > On 21/09/14 04:14, lee wrote: > > Try to provide a Debian package and you'll see that it is so > > ridiculously difficult that it is virtually impossible. > > Nothing about the process of providing a Debian package looks > ridiculously difficult to me. Tedious, perhaps, but not ridiculously > difficult. There are (basically) two steps: create a package, and > find someone to sponsor it for inclusion in the Debian archive. In my case - i prepared the package(s) and the sponsor find me :-) But i agree, the package creation is straightforward and well documented and all problems can be solved in mentors ML, where are mostly willing people. > To provide a package, you need (in the first instance) to engage in > dialogue with Debian Developers and persuade one of them that your > package would be a worthwhile addition to Debian and that they should > act as your sponsor for that package. I'm not noted for the quality > of my social skills, but I don't find the thought of doing this > particularly intimidating. First you need to create the ITP (which can be way to communicate with DD). > > As you can see, it's not only Debian developers I'm disappointed > > with. Sadly, the quality of Debian has declined over the years --- > > and I'm not the only one saying that --- and one of the reasons for > > this might be disregard for the users. > > My mileage varies; in my experience, Debian in 2014 is a > higher-quality distribution than Debian in 2004. The obvious example > is that sound (for all practical purposes) Just Works on my current > Debian system (all I had to do was pop open pavucontrol and tweak the > sliders), whereas in 2004 or 2006 it definitely didn't Just Work. I agree, the quality is growing. In last 10 years i see a big step to forward. Namely: choice of the DE in installer, multiarch, config files, no problem updates, and many a and many other things. But in last one or two years, there comes some problems (which i mentioned here more times), but they are in particular packages, not with the Debian self (i hope). And here mentioned and discussed problems with systemd can be from the same reason. -- Slavko http://slavino.sk
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