Package: paul Version: 0.1.3-1 Severity: normal No sooner do we get support for NEWS.Debian files than they start being abused, just like the debconf note templates that inspired NEWS.Debian support in the first place. paul (0.1.3-1) unstable; urgency=low I'm upstream author and debian developer in one person and I have to admit that my upstream work is more or less stalled because of other Debian projects. So feel free to take this package over upstream and note that the latest code is only alpha quality. -- Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 21:31:53 +0200 How does this information matter at all to the typical Debian user? What can the typical Debian user do about this? If paul ends up being unsuitable for release in sarge, a release-critical bug should be filed against it. I see no reason how the above would not have been better communicated to the debian-devel mailing list, a forum populated mostly by people who can actually act on this information. I suggest this "news item" be removed from the package. NEWS.Debian is for communicating information to the user that matters with respect to the configuration of his or her system. It is not a replacement for a blog about your software. Please see: From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: NEWS.Debian support is here Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 01:01:14 -0400 Message-ID: <20030704050114.GA20635@dragon.kitenet.net> -- G. Branden Robinson | Men use thought only to justify Debian GNU/Linux | their wrong doings, and speech only branden@debian.org | to conceal their thoughts. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Voltaire
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