On Friday 13 July 2007 02:23, Frans Pop wrote: > The main reasons for this are: > - the size of installation images should not be increased without > discussion > - every new udeb may need to be excluded in debian-cd > - migration for all udebs needs to be consciously managed (which mostly > falls to the D-I release manager) > - because of the previous point, having a udeb is not always enjoyable > for maintainers of regular packages because their packages may get > blocked from transitioning to testing; we should therefore not have > unused or trivial udebs
And: - introducing new udebs can also mean introdicing new dependencies, some of which may not be acceptable - packaging udebs is not as common as packaging "regular" packages; mistakes in initial versions of udebs are common, so it's best to get some review of patches to create them before they land in the archive
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