Bug#784405: ITP: rnetclient -- Client to submit the Brazilian Income Tax Report to the Brazilian Tax Authority
On Thursday, May 07 2015, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>> That is actually a pretty good solution! I am still learning the terms
>> and the whole process here, but jessie-updates, according to:
>>
>> <https://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110215>
>> (thanks to Cascardo for providing the link)
>>
>> would indeed be the ideal place for rnetclient, according to this
>> criterion:
>>
>> - Packages that need to be current to be useful (e.g. clamav).
>
> I am well versed with stable-updates, I upload to it several times per
> year due to intel-microcode. Unless there is previous arrangement with
> the stable release managers, an upload to stable-proposed-updates it is
> not always going to be fast enough for this. "keep current" doesn't
> mean "rush into stable every time", after all.
Oh, sure, I did not mean to lecture you, I am well aware of your Debian
fame. Sorry if it sounded like that.
As for being fast enough, Receita Federal usually gives 2 months to
prepare and submit your tax report, and the majority of the population
usually wait until the last week to fulfill their duties, so maybe it is
reasonable to expect that, if rnetclient enters the stable-updates repo
in the middle of the timeframe of 2 months (i.e., 1 month after RFB
published the proprietary versions of the softwares), we will still have
plenty of users benefitted by this. Does this sound feasible?
> IMHO, it would be far better to have someone maintain the debian
> packaging of this stuff upstream, in a "apt-gettable" repository that
> can be added to sources.list. Such a repository, although unofficial,
> could be both Debian and Ubuntu-friendly, and target also the LTS
> branches of Debian and Ubuntu. This side-steps all the issues I raised.
It seems that the only remaining issue was deciding which repository
would be a better fit for the program, and if the proposal of putting it
in the stable-updates is accepted, then we're golden.
I had considered the option of maintaining the Debian infrastructure
upstream when I saw your first message (actually, even before I posted
the ITP!), but I still think it is more beneficial to have rnetclient in
the official repository. It would, for example, be much harder to be
able to provide ports for different architectures just like Debian does
but without using Debian's infrastructure; I could mention other "good
to have" things as debbugs here, but I think you've got the point :-).
Cheers,
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