Re: Improving our response to "duplicate" packages in Debian
> - Research how many similar software packages are there actually in Debian, in
> what shape they are, whether they have active upstream and downstream
> maintainers. Complain about the worst package in that selection instead.
to address Ben's comments and to possibly distill Guus's nice list into
easily available and digestible post, I have placed an extract of
it into http://wiki.debian.org/ITP so we could refine it and possibly
refer to it.
Cheers
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Yaroslav O. Halchenko
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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