Martin List-Petersen wrote: > It might be the wrong approach to add comments like this to an ITP of somebody > who just wants to add a new, maybe better software package to Debian. Note that Andi asked what makes tpop3d better than the 10 or so pop3 daemons already in the archive. > packages because "we allready have so many". Well, choice is about having multiple packages offering distinct benefits. Choice is not about having two dozen half- to un-maintained packages failing to achieve the same goal. Being offered 20 packages isn't exactly a service to the user if he cannot be certain how long and how well the packages will be cared for. [1] I cannot see how politely asking prospective packagers to describe the value they think their particular package adds to the archive is inappropriate. There's >50 orphaned packages (where the ex-maintainer or someone else cared enough to do an upload assigning the package to qa) that have not been in woody, and probably quite a few ones that have been uploaded and are ill-maintained (why are 200 packages with RC bugs not in sarge?), so it's only reasonable to try to estimate the likelihood that a new package will share the same fate. Being the 10th daemon for a given service might not decrease that. Kind regards Thomas -- Thomas Viehmann, <http://thomas.viehmann.net/>
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