On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 09:57:16AM -0400, William F. Maton wrote: > On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Pontus Lidman wrote: > > 3) not enough people working on the debian-ipv6 project > Yes this is probably very true. Has a mechanism for uploading packages been worked out yet? The last time I tried to use IPv6 the main problem I had was that the packages were scattered around several different sites. > > It might also be a good idea to get in touch with maintainers of debian > > packages that have an IPv6-specific counterpart and offer help. > That is where it gets interesting. Most maintainers rarely see requests > for IPv6, and when someone offers to port it, they're grateful, but won't > let the result near their base code. Well, I wouldn't want to ship something in the main archive that did things very much differently to the upstream code. Then again, most of the upstream authors I deal with are pretty responsive and helpful. -- Mark Brown mailto:broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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