On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Charles Plessy wrote:
the more we package in teams, the more pakages will have to be arbitrarly hosted by one or the other. But there may be a solution. I will come up next year with a proposal in wich Joey Hess' multiple repository (mr) tool is used to manage overlapping package farms. http://packages.debian.org/sid/mr
I do fear for the social / strategical problem rather then the technical
problem. You can not fix by technical means that different repositories
are used in the same scope. People just will be confused and people who
are confused (basically newcomers) will most probably not stumble upon
this technical solution.
The main problem is that there are team "maintained" packages where everybody
trusts all the other team members and nobody finally realises if the team
is dissolved and actually nobody is working any more. That's why I'm in
favour of stronger teams.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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