[freenet-dev] [GSoC] Packaging and setup process

[Florent Daignière]

* Joel C. Salomon <joelcsalomon at gmail.com> [2008-03-23 13:04:52]:

> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Obey Arthur Liu <arthur at milliways.fr> wrote:
> >  The issue here with maintainer scripts downloading the bulk of the
> >  software is that it's against Debian policy and against the purpose of
> >  packages. There are some exceptions but there are for programs that are
> >  non-free anyway : flashplugin-nonfree, java-package, vmware-package...
> 
> It's only an issue since Freenet gets updates so often.  When it's
> stabilized you can make a more standard package.
> 

When will it be stabilized? Will it ever be?

> >  And anyway, nobody sane would run an "aptitude upgrade" daily on cron.
> 
> Perhaps for now Freenet packages should only be aimed at the unstable
> branches of Debian, where a regular "aptitude upgrade" is normal.
> 

What about ubuntu and other distros ? One of the points of packaging is
to get more users and having freenet only in unstable repository defeats
that purpose.
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