On Sat, 2 May 2009 12:57:33 +0200 Denis Briand <denis@narcan.fr> wrote: > On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:35:14PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei@debian.org> wrote: > > > > > Since this release it is maintained as a Debian native package. > > > > That doesn't mean it is correct to do so :) > > Hello, > Thank you for the upload. > I can put it in non-native package for futur version if it cause some trouble. > I let it in native because it was in native since 2004. > The upstream is dead. Just because upstream is dead and you have become the de facto upstream by packaging it for Debian, does not mean that the package is native to Debian. It is still a non-native package - just that it's one that only exists in Debian and has a Debian maintainer in upstream. That is exactly the same situation as drivel, pilot-qof and gpe-expenses are for me, but those are still non-native packages because they can (and do) work on other distributions. The fact that they were not originally available on anything other than Debian is irrelevant. Native packages are a special case and should not be abused. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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