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Re: Every piece of Free Software? Re: New-maintainer - STOP THAT SHIT



David Starner wrote:
> I'm not sure that's a good thing. There seems to be a lot of stuff
> packaged for the sake of packaging stuff. For example, as a
> would-be new maintainer, I've packaged fspanel. I've played a little bit
> with fspanel, but I don't use it in my normal desktop setup. It's
> trivial to build and is never going to be used by many people. But I
> packaged it because I needed a package, and it was a feasible first
> package. From a lot of the stuff I've seen packaged recently, I'm not
> the only person to do this. 

http://bugs.debian.org/wnpp/ is *FULL* of existing packages that anyone
is free to take. Please, please, please, take some instead of
introducing something into debian noone will ever use.

-- 
see shy jo



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