Re: Who's locking down the code?
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 11:15:23PM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> You forgot about the ftp-masters, the release team and the security
> team. They all have their word to say about which package can or cannot
> be in the archive or part of a release. And usually they are not really
> pro having the same code base twice in the archive.
The "right" way to achieve that would not be a separate source package upload,
but for the original source package for a hypothetical program 'foo' to
generate the existing 'foo' binary package and a 'foo-nosystemd' (or whatever)
binary package as well.
This is a geometric increase in packaging complexity and a maintainer (or
team of maintainers) would likely only consider it if there was a very good
reason for the new package, and sufficient resource in the team to manage
the complexity of the packaging and the resulting extra bugs etc.
--
Jonathan Dowland
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