Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.nntp4.net!news.hispagatos.org!srl.newsdeef.eu!news.corradoroberto.it!gothmog.csi.it!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Joost van =?utf-8?Q?Baal-Ili=C4=87?= Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Guidence on package development Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:10:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: Jai kadam X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Thu Dec 4 11:00:11 2025 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.599 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, KHOP_HELO_FCRDNS=0.399, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_CERTIFIED_BLOCKED=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED=0.001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate:hard: -4.6 X-Greylist: delayed 567 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at bendel; Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:42:02 UTC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/23458 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20251204103233.GG29484@beskar.mdcc.cx Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 19 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Cc: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Original-Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 11:32:33 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: <20251204103233.GG29484@beskar.mdcc.cx> X-Original-References: Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:17224 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