Re: Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian
I would go even 1 step further and seek from a perspective maintainer,
especially a non-DD/DM, at least some assurance that it is not a
fire-and-forget project for him (e.g. that he is using it extensively
and planing to do so for the next X years) and that he is willing
to put effort in proper maintenance of the package. ITP -> 1 upload ->
X NMUs -> O is not that uncommon. IMHO if there is a strong personal
motivation (i.e. active user) to get a package packaged, it might
provide additional weight toward "accepting" the package to be part of
Debian even if comparable alternatives exist.
I wonder if we shouldn't seek extending an
/usr/share/pyshared/reportbug/debbugs.py:521:itp_template = textwrap.dedent(u"""\
with some advocation/motivation fields to make our discussion (upon
reaching the consensus if such could be reached) any fruitful ?
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > > It's part of the job of a (prospective) package maintainer to advocate
> > > for the package.
> > what???
> I don't see anything unreasonable about being able to articulate the
> reasons why a package should be part of Debian. I don't mean having
> to suffer a drawn out argument, but just being able to give the
> reasons why it's important for the software to be in Debian, what
> it does, and why it's sufficiently different from what we already
> have.
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