Re: ping for missing maintainers
Chris Halls <halls@debian.org> writes:
> On Tuesday 20 June 2006 11:38, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be better to merge this with apt-cacher and combine your
>> skills and time? They do seem awfully similar in what they do if not
>> how they do it.
>
> Well, when apt-cacher started out, it needed an apache installation to work
> and I did not see that as a good replacement for apt-proxy, and it lacked
> many of apt-proxy's features. It looks like it has grown many of these
> features now so maybe it might be mature enough to retire apt-proxy. It isn't
> really possible to merge the existing code since the implementations are so
> different.
But current apt-cacher still miss some nice features of apt-proxy like
the possibility to enforce a server to be use for Debian or anything
else.
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