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| From: Jonas Smedegaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Lars �ge Kamfjord wrote: | | And, has anything happend? I've upgraded mozilla on one of my schools. | | Seems to work, but I didn't wont to install java manually if it's | | planned to give an official debian package of it..... | | This specific initiative will *not* result in an official Debian package.[1] [cut] | [1] This kind of confusion was exactly my concern when I suggested | taking the discussion at [email protected], and when I | complained about using "we" about Skolelinux on a Debian mailinglist.
Lars �ge Kamfjord wrote: | I guess your right; it wont be put into woody, but it will at least be | upgradable from some semiofficial/unofficial repository (I hope!) | | Installing from a .deb is better for a debiansystem than to have to | manually make sure files are replaced etc. when upgrading; and a lot | easier to delete if you don't like it any more.
I perfectly agree.
My concern was simply the word "official" above - which usually relates to "backed up by serious support".
Debian alone creates "official Debian packages".
Skolelinux is based on "official Debian packages" and adds some local hacks to better serve their goal (which is somewhat different from Debian). Sure, Skolelinux .deb packages are not "dirty hacks", but they *are* hacks (similarly to Debian packages themselves being hacks of the official source packages).
It is much better to use "official Skolelinux packages" than mixing in packages not tested with the distribution in use (like using stuff from backports.org). But the best thing (when using Debian-based systems) must be to use official Debian packages wherever possible.
Hope you all agree.
~ - Jonas
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