Hi Oliver,
On Di 12 Mär 2013 09:56:42 CET Oliver Burger wrote:
2013/3/8 Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>:
On Friday 2013-03-08 16:50, Mike Gabriel wrote:
Jan Engelhard (X2Go for RPM-based distros)
Wouldn't it be better to let the distros provide their packages? After all that's what distros are there for, aren't they? Of course it's nice for an end user, when his distro does not provide a package and the upstream project provides it, but from a distro packager perspective, it's bad, since
I can only speak for Debian. At the time of writing I do not see a
chance to get nx-libs (full) into Debian due to this outdated X.org
tree that is behind it. So, for Debian systems, we have to provide
packages by upstream.
Differently for Ubuntu. X2Go Server & co. could be in Ubuntu, however,
so far I have not bothered.
Another reason for providing packages by upstream is: give the users
the opportunity to retrieve latest releases for their favourite distro.
- you will necver know about conflicts between third party packages and those provided by the distro itself.
Unless you know the distro you package for outside the distro really
well. I am about to become a Debian Developer (only thing left is the
account creation on the Debian infrastructure), so I am pretty much
involved in that anyway.
- it's kind of hard to provide universal rpm packages, as the naming shema of libraries and other needed packages does vary quite a lot
I have no clue at all about RPM. Others have to comment on this.
- people will always complain to the distro's bug tracker and triaging teams have much fun explaining to those, that it's not the distro's fault as the packages in use are not provided by the distro
With Debian, you can only report bugs to packages that exist in
Debian. The described experience I do not have here.
Greets, Mike
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