Hi Talby,
Marco wrote:
> Hello, and sorry if out of topic, but how is it possible that the
> upstream page riot.im can provide the riot-web deb package in their
> provided repository?
> I don't get how in Debian it should technically not be possible to do
> the same as upstream. And isn't it possible to simply invite them
> /guide them / help them to become an official Debian package
> maintainer, so that they can provide riot-web themselves in Debian?
A "Debian package" can mean either a package installable into a Debian
system, or a package releasable with Debian itself.
Creating a .deb file installable into a Debian system requires little
more than making a tarball or a zip file (if upstream build routines are
sensible).
Creating a package that follows Debian Policy and is maintained as part
of Debian requires more than that - some of it pointed out in previous
posts to this bugreport.
I don't say this to diminish the effort done by upstream in providing a
.deb package: That is nice, and a help for those who decide to trust
upstream in not only creating and maintaining their own project but also
in creating and mainting install routines executed as root on the target
systems.
Anyone - you and upstream too - are welcome to join Debian and maintain
packages to be integrated with Debian officially. It does _not_ require
you to go through any special process to become "members of Debian", you
can simply request to join e.g. the Matrix team and start helping out.
More information at https://wiki.debian.org/Matrix - and more generally
at https://www.debian.org/devel/join/
Kind regards,
- Jonas
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