Re: Flag images

[Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Dmitry E. Oboukhov <unera@debian.org> wrote:

> I'm going to add into debian a few new (my) projects which need flag
> images and so I want to add a package which contains flag set.

Are you sure they need flags? Which package and what exactly will the
flags represent?

I would personally suggest to avoid adding flags to Debian where possible.

Some background to my opinion:

http://lwn.net/Articles/333623/
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_Maintainers_Flags_Policy
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2009-January/thread.html#501
http://lwn.net/Articles/334519/

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pabs

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