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Bug#813311: humble repositories shoud be humble



Hi,

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 03:35:49PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote:
> 
> I also think that we shouldn't encourage non-Debian repositories too
> much. It makes sense for fast-moving projects like Jenkins who refactor
> their entire codebase every three months, but I'd really prefer upstream
> authors to be involved in the long term support.
> 

That is the idea of getting non-Debian repostories to behave humble.

Currently is an extra repository a trojan horse that is inside the city wall.

Nicelookingproject might be very tempted to push / enforce their modified
packages to get "foo" working without putting effort in the rest
of the eco-system they are using.


Groeten
Geert Stappers
-- 
Leven en laten leven


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