Re: meme

[Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>]

On 06/29/2012 11:56 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:43:24AM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote:
>>>
>>> Further the meme documentation (to be exact: overview.html) talks about lots of small tools (-> $(MODULES) in debian/rules). Does
>>> anybody know whether all of them are really needed? Some of them have rather generic names ...
>>>
>>>   Thorsten
>>>
>>
>> I suggest to contact upstream about what and how they think should be presented through Debian and Ubuntu. I met them once at a
>> conference dinner and I am confident it was not the food that made them friendly. And it is those kind of contacts that makes
>> Debian packaging a much rewarding experience, typically.
> 
> Considering that it was you who had the dinner rather than Thorsten I
> would have loved to read "s/I suggest to contact/I will contact/" and
> perhaps Thorsten might compile a list of suggested changes which you
> could wrap into words?

Swamped here. And it is >10 years ago, no real advantage, really :o)
More importantly, I definitely want to see Debian contributing to such direct
contacts between scientific groups and engineers of all flavours world-wide.
I am not needed. And with that extra context - I'd even disturb.

Cheers,

Steffen