The Debian tech committee allows Kubernetes vendoring
The Debian tech committee allows Kubernetes vendoring
[Distributions] Posted Jan 20, 2021 21:24 UTC (Wed) by corbet
Back in October, LWN looked at a conversation within the Debian project regarding whether it was permissible to ship Kubernetes bundled with some 200 dependencies. The Debian technical committee has finally come to a conclusion on this matter: this bundling is acceptable and the maintainer will not be required to make changes:
Our consensus is that Kubernetes ought to be considered special in
the same way that Firefox is considered special -- we treat the
package differently from most other source packages because (i) it
is very large and complex, and (ii) upstream has significantly more
resources to keep all those moving parts up-to-date than Debian
does.
In the end, allowing this vendoring seemed like the only feasible way to package Kubernetes for Debian.