Bug#673424: Fwd: Bug#673424: bbswitch packaging

[Aron Xu <aron@debian.org>]

Hi Ritesh, Vincent,

I've cut off quotes as my reply does not apply to specific sentences...

I agree that keeping a package simple have benefits, but I don't think
making our life harder is a good reason to cut down such stuff. Our
current packaging are largely based on upstream's efforts, and we have
to agree that upstream consider both Debian and Ubuntu are important.
We'd like to have a good relation with upstream, and actually we have
friends who use these packages on both Debian and Ubuntu, so if we
just cut down the compatibility stuff then we must deal with both
Debian and Ubuntu to keep everyone happy, or we get hated.

The differences between nvidia packaging isn't likely to change in a
short time base on my understanding, so it's not neat to have a so
long list in Depends/Recommends, and yes I agree it looks awful but we
have no better choice to make everyone happy and keep the work load as
less as it can be.


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Regards,
Aron Xu