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

[Scott Kitterman]

Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>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.

I don't think such a consensus, outside of the small group of people that invested time in the packaging guide, exists.  The Kubuntu team does not use it and last I checked Ubuntu Desktop didn't either.  There are people the use UDD, of course, but also large numbers that don't.

Scott K