Hi Mo, > It's good to see you around, and thanks for the comment!
Only by chance, I have unsubscribed from all Debian lists, but this one has such a low volume that I missed it ;-) > Basically at this point I think Debian's strict policy > feels like a double-blade sword. It is good as long as we I have warned about this already some years ago at the DebConf. The explosion of middle ware leads to separate packaging managers, and that makes it unfeasible for Debian to package everything. Fedora head recently published a very similar blog about this topic. What it means that developers actually don't care whether it is Debian, Ubuntu, foobar, because for real world projects you *MUST* use the middle ware specific installation manager. I brought it up a few times so that Debian starts working on a policy change, but it was ignored. Well, no wonder. > It is increasing work when the upstream goes in the opposite > direction, while Debian is seemingly the only distribution > that has restrictions on network access during the build. Yup... All the best also to you, see around somewhere Norbert -- PREINING Norbert https://www.preining.info Mercari Inc. + IFMGA Guide + TU Wien + TeX Live GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13
