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.
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