Re: Status of PHP5?

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 07:57:13PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> On 10270 March 1977, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> 
> > 1. The ftpmaster was a member of pkg-php project, he boycotts my work and 
> > don't offer something else.
> 
> Im not a member of the php project and I would have rejected it too, I
> dont think it has anything todo with jvw beeing intrested in php stuff...
> 
> I cant see much coordination with existing php maintainer(s). As far as I
> know they/he informed you about the project on alioth.

This sounds like a valid reason for rejecting a package.

> And then there is this yada packaging you used.
> Nothing against it, whoever wants it can use it[1] - but for such a popular
> package that probably will receive a lot of help from different people
> this is IMO the worst thing ever to choose.
> Something that is known to many,like debhelper, cdbs, whatever is for
> sure the better thing to use.
> 
> [1] No flamewar against it intended.

Not that I was a friend of yada, but AFAIK it's allowed for a maintainer 
to use whatever tools he wants for his packaging.

If this is wrong and I missed a part of Debian policy not allowing yada, 
RC bugs should be filed against all packages using yada.

And ftpmaster alone was a bad point to disallow yada.
As long as a later conversion to yada is allowed, it's quite useless.

> bye Joerg

cu
Adrian

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