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Re: Guidence on package development

From	Joost van Baal-Ilić <joostvb-debian@mdcc.cx>
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Subject	Re: Guidence on package development
Date	2025-12-04 12:10 +0100
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On Thu, Dec 04, 2025 at 01:40:27AM +0530, Jai kadam wrote:
>
> why are we making chages in a already debinized repo? If a version 2 of a
> package is in upstream why would someone patch the already debinized repo
> instead of patching the new upstream and debianzing it ?

Because going again from pure upstream to debianized package is generally more
work than reusing the previous debianization work.  If we are lucky, the
previous debianization fits without real changes on the new upstream.

HTH!

BTW, your questions are more about Debian packaging work then about Debian
Python packaging: likely the people at debian-mentors@lists.debian.org (see
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq ) are a better target.

Bye,

Joost

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  Re: Guidence on package development Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2025-12-03 21:00 +0100
    Re: Guidence on package development Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> - 2025-12-03 21:20 +0100
    Re: Guidence on package development Jai kadam <jaivkadam@gmail.com> - 2025-12-03 21:20 +0100
      Re: Guidence on package development Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2025-12-03 21:20 +0100
      Re: Guidence on package development Joost van Baal-Ilić <joostvb-debian@mdcc.cx> - 2025-12-04 12:10 +0100

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