Seeking consensus on dh

Posted Jun 7, 2019 3:34 UTC (Fri) by martin.langhoff (subscriber, #61417)
In reply to: Seeking consensus on dh by rweikusat2
Parent article: Seeking consensus on dh

To be clear here, it's not impossible, it's 10x harder, and a lot more brittle. And just not culturally acceptable in debian.

In Debian, an NMU is something people complain about. And with some reason -- the maintainer who did the NMU has a good chance of breaking stuff, because each package is unique in its packaging.

In Fedora, super maintainers work on hundreds or thousands of packages over a couple days regularly, and generally nothing breaks. NMUs are the rule, not the exception. Packages are cattle for them.