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[Julien Danjou <julien.danjou@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 30 2011, Thierry Carrez wrote:

Hi Thierry,

> TL;DR summary:
> The resources needed to do that properly are bigger than you think (and
> doing that will alienate some distro packaging resources), so we'll
> either do a terrible job at it, or lose focus on the development
> release. If there is a need, it should be done as an alternate
> distribution, not inside the OpenStack project.

With my Debian developer and Debian OpenStack packaging team hat on, I
must say that you're totally right about this.

All upstreams projects trying to do packaging does a terrible job at it,
because that's not something you can improvise.

It's more important to understand the needs of the packagers (e.g. a
proper setup.py) than to try to do their jobs worse.

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Julien Danjou
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