Re: scwm

[Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@law.miami.edu>]

Francesco Tapparo <cesco@mizar.debian.org> writes:
>    I'm the maintainer of the scwm package, a guile driven window manager:
> it is formally alpha software, but it's fairluy stable; I use it from around
> 5 months and it crashed 3 times. So scwm is unstable quality, but not
> Debian Quality(TM), yet. On the other hand scwm is a very good window
> manager, highly configurable and powerful. So my problem is: must scwm be
> present in 2.0, or I must upload only for inclusion in slink? Or I must put
> it as 'extra' and put a warning in postinst? Or .... 

There's nothing to worry about.  If it's truly impossible to eliminate 
all bugs in any non-trivial program, then nearly all of our programs
are buggy.  While it'd be nice if scwm never crashed, etc., it
requires no special treatment because it does.

Mike.


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