On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:50:49AM +0100, Nick Name wrote: > On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:17:24 -0600 > Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> wrote: > > The question "why do we need another one?" should always be asked, and > > unless there are problems with the functionality provided by the > > existing package, "I don't want to use that one" is a piss-poor > > excuse for expanding the archive. > That's not true. Everything that works well and is GPL is entitled to be > packaged for debian. Um, I don't think any software is *entitled* to be packaged for Debian. There's plenty of free software which is insecure, or unmaintainable/badly written, or that does what it was intended to do very well but is ill-conceived. There are many reasons why a piece of software might "work well" but be unfit for packaging. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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