Re: Packaging Advice for EFF's Certbot
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Nathaniel Smith wrote: > I love Debian. I've been a loyal user for twenty years. But Debian is > really bad at coping with software that needs to react quickly to changing > external conditions, or that depends on a tight feedback loop between users > and developers. (Indeed, Debian's whole value-add is to insert themselves > as a buffer between users and developers, which is great in some situations > but terrible in others.) > > Maybe if certbot worked hard enough they could arrange to get special > treatment like Firefox or clamav or something, but in their position I > would see this as a total non-starter. Even if they did somehow manage to > navigate Debian's politics, they'd still have to go and repeat the process > for Redhat, SuSE, Ubuntu, Gentoo, ... I wouldn't be too put off by the idea of Debian politics. Certbot should be a good fit for stable-updates: https://wiki.debian.org/StableUpdates under the "Packages that need to be current to be useful" criterion listed at https://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110215 -M- -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EGMGR2HFKJOPANXPORLSLNDRTYVB3FOM/