Styles of Packaging (was: Deprecating the wiki-based Packaging Guide)

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 02:08:04AM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> 1.  While there are sponsors that prefer branches over debdiffs/source
> packages uploaded somewhere, I don't know of any that will only sponsor
> branches.  The reverse is not true.  There are developers that don't do
> UDD sponsoring.  By pursuing this path, new packagers limit the potential
> candidates to sponsor packages.

If there is a consensus that new packagers should be using UDD, we shouldn't
let that consensus be held hostage by dissenters that refuse to use UDD.

But as per my previous message, I agree that UDD reliability here is a major
problem, and no one is well served by developer documentation describing a
non-existent utopia instead of the way things actually are.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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