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Re: Commercial programs in Debian



"Gudjon I. Gudjonsson" <gudjon@mc2.chalmers.se> writes:

> Hi
>    Sorry for the disturbion but I would like to mention some things.
> I have been thinking about if it was possible to set up some bug list as a 
> kind of quality assurance for commercial programs in Debian. Most commercial 
> programs I have seen are only said to be compatible with RedHat and sometimes 
> SuSe. Such a list might make it more interesting for the companies to port 
> their applications to Debian and it would definetly make my life easier:). Is 
> it possible for example to make a pseudo package to install in Debian with 
> the name of the program that makes apt-listbugs retrieve all bugs for that 
> program when the system is upgraded?
>    Perhaps such an idea has already appeared on the internet but I did not 
> find it.
>
> Sincerely
> Gudjon

I think an alioth project might be better. You could host patches to
the installer scripts, bug tracking, an ML, ...

MfG
        Goswin



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