On 11/03/2016 10:48 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> The gory details are described in >> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bzed/pkg-nagios-plugins-contrib/master/debian/README.source >> in case you're interested. > > Ah, interesting. That's the first success story I've heard. Have you had > any trouble with confused users who can't figure out if they have the > right version of some upstream plugin? (I suppose that's a bit less of a > problem for this since no one cares about Build-Depends, etc., for > plugins, and mostly people just run whatever we package and don't worry > about it.) The biggest "problems" we had were - users who reported bugs against plugins in the packaging issue tracker on github instead of the upstream bugtracker - users sending pull requests with changes that modify the plugin code directly, we prefer to keep all patches in debian/patches/$plugin - bug reports of fedora people complaining that plugins written for Debian don't work on their box :D - plugins changing the way they handle options from one version to the other. While this is not such a big issue from one debian release to the next one, as people normally expect some breakages, it might be annoying for backports users. so far nobody complained/discussed plugin versions - but most of them are moving slowly, also we (at least try to) provide always updated backports. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F