On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 08:57:46AM -0400, Michael Stenner wrote: > Appologies for being so brash, but my motives are good. > > Regarding my previous post (see below): > > I think it is important that debian keep a current afterstep package. A > lot of new users come to linux for the beautiful and customizable look > and feel, and afterstep is one of the leaders in that area. I maintain the asclassic package. I can have a look at the newest stable afterstep if you like---it's almost certainly very similar to the asclassic package given that I've forked asclassic from it. =D Thing is, unless I can convince the thing to behave in a manner similar to asclassic, I don't really want to maintain the beast all that much. I'd be willing to give you a hand with it, or possibly adopt it myself if I can get the newest versions to behave properly. > Personally, I don't care -- I can and do install the latest versions > from tarballs in about 2 minutes, but new users aren't normally willing > ot do that (we discourage it, after all). > > I'm only asking for a little direction. What is appropriate? Is my > help not wanted? I'd discourage it too---I never install tarballs anymore. It does bad things. It's always better to debianize the tarball first, and with debhelper not terribly painful to do either. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style. -- Ian Jackson
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