[Rdo-list] RDO and Upstream Packaging

[Haïkel]

Interesting read, that's indeed a breakthrough.

Usually, when you speak about unified packaging for distro, it's often
made by upstream maintainers to simplify users life. But it's often inconsistent
with packaging good pratices and with poor integration.

Having downstream distros collaborating would fix that long-standing
issue and gives
us more weight upstream. Even trivial issue like configuration file
location could
be a pain to get it fixed upstream, as upstream maintainers may not
get the point.
Having

I personally prefer having a single unified packaging project to deal
with common issues and then have sub-teams for each family of distros.
But unlike RDO, Debian/Ubuntu are a bit less advanced in their tooling, and they
are eager to get started asap. That's maybe one of the reasons that we may get
two packaging projects instead of a single one. I still hope it will happen, but
I'd rather not force a change when we have conflicting priorities.

Converging RDO/Suse packaging may be a little trickier than Debian/Ubuntu
but still doable and both party are interested in collaborating.

On a positive note, we currently have a first external contribution to
add debian package build
in Delorean
https://review.gerrithub.io/#/c/236233/2

Regards,
H.