Reasons not to include some Gnome packages in Debian

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort pochu at debian.org
Sat Sep 27 15:36:20 UTC 2014


On 27/09/14 13:20, filorin wrote:
> Hi there !
> 
> I'm just wondering of something, as we're one month from the Freeze.
> I noticed that some packages, as the "gnome-software" package is not
> included in Debian. I keep an eye on Gnome's introduction in Debian and
> this is something that i don't understand.
> It seems to be a volunteer decision, isn't it ? If so, why
> gnome-software is not included in Debian since it exists ? (from 3.10).

There's been work to package it, but not all the dependencies were in Debian at
the time. I don't know what the current status is, but you could ask on the ITP:
#722316.

Emilio



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