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--- Begin Message ---Package: tech-ctte Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: o...@debian.org Control: block 970717 by -1 Dear Technical Committee, Apologies that we were not able to resolve the problem without your help. I seek your judgement regarding excessive, unnecessary and unjustifiable vendoring of private libraries in Kubernetes package: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=970717 Some relevant argumentation can be found in https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/03/msg00359.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/03/msg00400.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/03/msg00441.html In short, myself and Golang packaging team spent years on stabilising Golang ecosystem of packaged libraries for re-use by Golang software. To the best of my knowledge, all packaged Golang software, regardless of its sophistication, use some packages libraries. Except Kubernetes, that disconnected itself from cooperation by not using any packaged libraries, instead exclusively using only private libraries in numbers greater than any Debian package ever used. As a former Kubernetes maintainer and a developer who originally introduced Kubernetes to Debian, I know that it could be maintained with only few (or several) private libraries at most. Current state of Kubernetes package is in violation of ftp-master's policy for inclusion of new packages to Debian. Thank you. This matter is not urgent. -- Regards, Dmitry Smirnov --- We do our friends no favors by pretending not to notice flaws in their work, especially when those who are not their friends are bound to notice these same flaws. -- Sam Harrissignature.asc
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--- Begin Message ---Hello, The Committee declines to overrule the maintainer and accepts the level of vendoring used in the 'kubernetes' source package. We also decline to intervene in bugs requesting that vendored components in the 'kubernetes' source package be installed in binary packages in such a way that other packages can make use of them. Our consensus is that Kubernetes ought to be considered special in the same way that Firefox is considered special -- we treat the package differently from most other source packages because (i) it is very large and complex, and (ii) upstream has significantly more resources to keep all those moving parts up-to-date than Debian does. In the case of Kubernetes, what this means is that instead of breaking the package down into separate libraries connected together with dpkg dependency relationships, as is usual, we take updates of the whole set of sources directly from upstream and make a single upload to our archive. Our most basic reason for this point of view is that given how much fewer resources we have than upstream Kubernetes, it is not feasible for Kubernetes to make it into a stable release of Debian unless we take an approach like this one. The same goes for the possibility of providing security support. And given that a strategy for security support is available, we do not see any reason why having the Kubernetes bundle in a stable release alongside other copies of its vendored dependencies is worse than not having Kubernetes in a stable release at all. It should be noted that we think the greater resources of upstream is relevant not only to keeping on top of patches and security fixes, but also to license compliance. It is our belief that there is no reason at the present time to be concerned that non-DFSG material would find its way into the package, because Kubernetes upstream care about ensuring that all vendored dependencies are free software, and they have the resources to check. This could change in the future and it may not be true for other upstreams. -- Sean Whittonsignature.asc
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