Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 11:55:09AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 09:10:19PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> > > - is it free?
> > > - could someone be bothered doing the work of packaging it?
> > >
> > > if the answer to both questions is yes, then there is no
> > > justification for refusing the package.
> >
> > Yes but the maintainer should also ask
> >
> > - Does it enhance Debian?
>
> if it is useful or interesting to even one person then it enhances
> debian. in other words, this is not a useful question to ask - if it
> wasn't of value to at least one person then they would not have bothered
> to package it.
>
> many of the packages in debian are in debian because the maintainer felt
> that they were useful to them personally....if others benefit from it
> too, that is good but it is sufficient that the maintainer has, by their
> work, made debian that much more useful to themself.
>
I'm afraid I don't quite agree with you about this : I have the feeling that
sometimes the only interest found in the package is not the package by
itself, but the fact that it has been packaged : I mean, the only interest
is for the guy who wanted to become a maintainer, and just looked for a
stuff to put in main...
Best regs.
--
Thierry LARONDE
thierry.laronde@polynum.com
website : http://www.polynum.com
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at the very time, by way of preliminaries, he's just oiling your arse."
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