Re: Pre-BOF CDD ideas
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
> I fit perfectly in this situation. I'm not (yet) a DD (my application
> is hanging somewhere on Debian servers..), but I have lots of things
> related to aGNUla/DeMuDi that I'd like to upload and maintain. I set
> up my own repository at http://apt.agnula.org/demudi/, but I'd like to
> avoid that.
>
> In Valencia we agreed that this list should act as link between
> unofficial CDD developers and Debian, so if the DDs on debian-custom
> could help non-DDs uploading their packages that would be great.
Is there at least one DD in the aGNUla project? This one could sponsor
your packages. If not I have no doubt that anybody else would sponsor your
packages. Just ask for sponsoring before setting up a private repository.
Did you just sended ITP bug reports and asked for sponsors inside the ITP?
> IMHO having different flavours of the same package should be
> considered an extreme solution, when no other alternative is
> available. As a general rule I think complexity should be kept at the
> minimum possible value, and having 2 packages for the same software
> means that you have to double the work. Just think when new upstream
> source comes out.
The best way would be to send patches to upstream which enables runtime
configuration and then wait for the next upstream release ...
Perhaps this is naive but I can not imagine a relevant amount of packages
that this would be a general problem.
> I most cases I think that a patch can be included in the original
> package without hurt, by introducing a command line flag
> (e.g. /usr/bin/myprog --my-patch) or similar switches.
Exactly.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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