Re: Small Open Source Digital Classroom
On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 19:27:37 +0300
Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mi, 01 apr 20, 08:58:16, Celejar wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 03:57:17 +0000
> > "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> wrote:
> >
> > > server. And Jitsi is open source. What more could you ask?
> >
> > I am indeed strongly tempted to try that. I suppose I'm just spoiled by
> > Debian - I almost always install stuff from the repos, and I tend to
> > assume (probably somewhat unreasonably) that if something isn't there,
> > there's a good reason for it, and that installing manually from
> > upstream is going to be more trouble than it's worth (at least for me
> > with my limited sysadmin skills). I acknowledge that this is an overly
> > narrow and pessimistic attitude ...
>
> On a quick research I couldn't find any particular reason why the
> package is not available also from Debian repositories.
>
> There used to be a package maintained by two persons with @jitsi.org
> e-mail addresses. At some point they just stopped uploading it, though
> one of those persons is still maintaining the upstream packages.
>
> It could be a manpower issue and/or upstream wants more flexibility than
> allowed by Debian policies.
>
> E.g. in many cases upstream projects don't have a "stable", "long term
> support", "ESR", etc. branch (they may have valid reasons for that).
> This makes it very difficult to provide security support for the package
> in Debian.
All good points - thanks.
Celejar
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