Re: Bug#517790: ITP: mydns -- DNS server using MySQL or PostgreSQL for data storage

["Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org>]

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 04:42:19PM +0100, Sylvain Rochet wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:02:08AM -0600, William Pitcock wrote:
> > > What does this have over PowerDNS?
> > Probably nothing, else that I am using it and packaging it for my own 
> > and thought that it would be a good idea to contribute to Debian, is 
> > redundancy a problem ?
>
> Even if you're a perfectly responsible maintainer, a new package still
> requires some work by ftpmaster, the release team, possibly the security team,
> and so on.  It also increases the number of options a user has to choose
> between.  If the package is redundant, this is a waste of their time.

It is a network daemon, so you should also considering security:
different implementations *could* help security,
so redundancy not always is wast of time.

ciao
	cate