Re: negative vote for maintainer Michael Gilbert
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 17:15, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> Sergiusz Pawlowicz <sergiusz@pawlowicz.name> writes:
>
>> In a home-brew system, it is absolutely a solution. But testing Debian
>> in an extremely essential service, DNS, on your production servers, is
>> in my opinion, not acceptable.
>
> If you have a Debian production environment of any appreciable size, it's
> well worth the effort to set up your own local repository. At Stanford,
> we end up wanting to backport random things, add local packages, or import
> packages from testing or unstable into stable all the time, and use our
> local repository extensively for that.
Yes, it is possible, but if there is no bug, I prefer to have a
package inside the distro,
as by the scale of project, it is always possible other bugs can be
detected by other users.
Forking a project is always more risky.
S.
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