Re: Bug#116359: ITP: apron -- An MPEG player running in a text-console
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On 20 Oct 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:
>
> > On 20 Oct 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jérôme Marant wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry, I can easily guess that the number of apron users will not exceed
> > > one or two.
> >
> > You'd be surprised...
>
> Maybe, trying it 5 minutes. Do you really intent to watch film with that?
Why not? If your console doesn't support graphics? If you like to show off
with cool software? If you're at a booth and want to show why a console is
nice?
If it was really useless, it wouldn't be written.
> > > This is the kind of usefullness I'm talking about. Tuxracer
> > > is far away from this.
> >
> > I wasn't talking about tuxracer; I was talking about tuxracer *in m68k*.
> > Ever tried to run quake III on a 386? Right.
>
> So, this has nothing to do with what we are talking out.
Sure. You said it makes no sense to package "useless" software. I say that
usefullness is not an issue, since it is a subjective criterion, not an
objective one. Tuxracer is not usefull on m68k, but we compile it
there since there's no objective criterion against it.
> > > And when orphaned, noone
> > > will accept to take it over,
> >
> > Exactly how can you know that? Do you have some sort of crystal ball or
> > something?
>
> Statistics.
"There are three levels of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics".
I don't know who's quote this is, but it applies here. Sure, maybe most
less interesting packages don't find a new maintainer when orphaned.
Doesn't mean that they all do.
Moreover, it's not even orphaned yet.
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