The Debian tech committee allows Kubernetes vendoring

Back in October, LWN looked at a conversationwithin the Debian project regarding whether it was permissible to shipKubernetes bundled with some 200 dependencies. The Debian technicalcommittee has finally cometo a conclusion on this matter: this bundling is acceptable and themaintainer will not be required to make changes:

Our consensus is that Kubernetes ought to be considered special inthe same way that Firefox is considered special -- we treat thepackage differently from most other source packages because (i) itis very large and complex, and (ii) upstream has significantly moreresources to keep all those moving parts up-to-date than Debiandoes.

In the end, allowing this vendoring seemed like the only feasible way topackage Kubernetes for Debian.