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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: conflicts between Debian's and upstream's Debian package
From:       Adam Borowski <kilobyte () angband ! pl>
Date:       2015-02-20 18:31:49
Message-ID: 20150220183149.GA17545 () angband ! pl
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 05:53:27PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> If the Debian packages are not as good as the upstream ones, such that
> you end up having to use the upstream ones for some reason, then that
> also seems like a bug. If you can help the Debian maintainer to fix that
> bug (e.g. by getting newer upstream versions into experimental, or by
> fixing deficiencies of the packaging that are done better upstream, or
> whatever), problem also solved.

There's only one experimental, the upstream can have more branches. 
During Debian freeze, an upstream may offer for example:
* the newest release
* upcoming beta branch
* trunk

Another reason is that the latter two will often have nightly builds.
You can't expect a Debian maintainer to make uploads to experimental daily,
while it's easy for an upstream script to do that.

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