On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 01:48:44PM +0200, Yoann LE BARS wrote: [...] > Concerning my own applications (they use a free licence), really, it is > better not to engage any integration into Debian: it is not worth the > effort nor for me, my users and the distribution. You cannot integrate > an application that is use by something like ten people, including the > developer. Also, some of them use Open Suze … Hm. Myself, i have one small application "out there" for just one customer (Gtk2, C, GPL3+, although it has more ideological than practical value, since it is really tailor-made to fit). I actually went all the way to wrap proper Debian packaging around it. Nowadays it's a charm, because I can leverage all of the Debian goodness (you want a port to Raspi? No problem, just cross-build. You want it running on that old Squeeze box [hey, didn't I tell you to upgrade?] -- cross-build again). But that only really works out when the customer is nearly all-Debian, which this one is. > Concerning proprietary applications, I am afraid editors are not really > willing to collaborate. Clearly, they want to to everything by their self. Of course: they will collaborate whenever it's convenient to them (the "embrace" phase). For example, Zoom does offer Debian packages. Would I install that? No way! I'd prefer the browser version, and I'll use a fresh, separate profile, and at the end, I'll soak that profile with gasoline and put a match to it (well, OK, maybe just "rm -Rf" might do ;-) But I'll bitch and moan loudly to my interlocutor. Perhaps I'll lie and say that I've got just a telephone or something. Cheers - t
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