Re: Bug#290396: ITP: lopster2 -- A Napster gtk2 client
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 06:40:30PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:25:39PM +0100, Riccardo Setti wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > * Package name : lopster2
> > Version : cvs pre3.9
> > Upstream Author : Sgop sgop at users.sourceforge.net
>
> Hi,
>
> Why don't you let the maintainer of the existing 'lopster' package
> maintain lopster2? Have you discussed it with him?
>
> I have been the victim of new-version-package-hijacking in the past and
> I find it quite rude. However it's OK if you have discussed it with the
> current maintainer and have their permission.
Well, more importantly, this is archive bloat. Since apparantly the
lopster maintainer is not upgrading his package, you intend to just add
the new version to the archive, in stead of doing something about the
original issue?
I don't think it's okay even with maintainer permission unless there is
a very good reason to have multiple versions of a certain package in the
archive, something that is relatively rare.
--Jeroen
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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