On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:27:00PM +0000, Jon Dowland wrote: > > Really? I've never seen such a guideline (although I admit it's been > > a long time since I read the relevant documents). In fact, the Debian > > Developer's Reference, section 5.4, seems to suggest that the > > difference is purely technical and has no political or social > > implications. If you could show me some document that explains > > whether and why native packages are not preferred for software that > > could live outside Debian, I'd appreciate that very much. > From a user's perspective, it is often useful to see, at a glance, > whether a package upgrade includes `upstream' changes, or debian native > changes. The latter are described in debian/changelog (but not the > former) and you can read about them by hitting e.g. C in recent versions > of aptitude, for example.
But when the package is native, you get to real _all_ changes in changelog, so the situation is at least not worse in that case? Panu -- personal contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED], +35841 5323835 technical contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.iki.fi/atehwa/ PGP fingerprint: 0EA5 9D33 6590 FFD4 921C 5A5F BE85 08F1 3169 70EC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
