Bug#984497: weasels and doves
On 2021-03-10 02:38, George N. White III wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 12:36, Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org
> <mailto:merkys@debian.org>> wrote:
> Many users will not look into e-mail addresses. They will search online
> using the name of the software, and will arrive at the same developers'
> desk. This might be offset by renaming entire pieces of software, but
> renamed packages become hardly visible and all valuable online material
> related to the original name becomes hidden from users.
>
> Renaming should be like "debian-sid-<original_name>" for supported
> by Debian packages.
I assume your suggestion is to keep such packages sid-only. Apart from
compilers/build systems (sbt and bazel, to name a few), I am not sure
about the benefit of sid-only packages.
> There are, however, use-cases where packaging is not
> helpful to users:
>
> 1. a package that relies on "customized" configurations of widely used
> libraries
> (hdf4 and gdal are examples of libraries with many optional extensions).
>
> 2. a package whose purpose is to provide highly optimized versions of common
> libraries for low volume hardware (such as large HPC systems). There are
> many potential hardware configurations with new configurations being
> released
> multiple times a year. There are complicated issues of reproducibility
> and
> testing that don't have one size fits all answers.
This problem is general, not limited to software whose developers object
inclusion in Debian.
Andrius
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