Debian discusses vendoring—again

Posted Jan 13, 2021 15:52 UTC (Wed) by liori (guest, #117124)
In reply to: Debian discusses vendoring—again by dottedmag
Parent article: Debian discusses vendoring—again

> As an upstream author I don't really care about distributions, all I care about is users who can use my software.

And as a user, I don't want to download my applications each from a different source. I don't want to remember to update them, each using a different tool. And I want to reduce the risks involved with updates breaking my workflows.

I want to outsource all of this to the distribution. And, for me, when an application is prepared so that outsourcing all this work to the distribution is easy is a feature I value.

This is why I'm using a Linux distribution and not, let say, LFS.

Debian discusses vendoring—again

Posted Jan 13, 2021 19:45 UTC (Wed) by dottedmag (subscriber, #18590) [Link] (1 responses)

> And as a user, I don't want to download my applications each from a different source. I don't want to remember to update them, each using a different tool.

That's a solved problem, I believe.

> And I want to reduce the risks involved with updates breaking my workflows.

I feel for you and many more (myself included) who are either stuck with old version of software and no support or forced to upgrade to incompatible version. As developers we ought to treat our users better and break less, that's for sure.

Debian discusses vendoring—again

Posted Jan 14, 2021 13:15 UTC (Thu) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link]

> That's a solved problem, I believe.

It is, for software that respects licenses, policies, and is not a nightmare to package.

But you just said you don't want to do any of those things with the software you write. So it's not solved for your software.