Hi Andreas,
On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:00:03 Andreas Tille wrote:
> [moving to Debian Med user list to get a more fitting audience]
O boy, I wasn't subscribed to that one... :)
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 06:44:56PM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> > I failed to re-use (i.e. unarchive/reopen) old ITP #564285 so perhaps a
> > new ITP is to be filed.
>
> I guess it does not really matter. For me "closing" this archived bug
> in the changelog is fine. Finally the ITP is to make sure that people
> are not doing a competing packaging effort and I do not assume that
> currently somebody else is working on openmolar in parallel.
It makes sense to me...
> > Andreas, how would you like to proceed? Do you want "openmolar" in
> > experimental or in unstable? Thanks.
>
> If you regard it "usable" unstable is fine. You might add a warning in
> the long description about "no guarantee that the package is doing
> anything useful / expect a loss of all your data / blabla" or whatever.
> I'd also add a verbose README.Debian to clarify the status of the
> package.
Thank you for explanation and for advice. I added brief README.Debian that I
think would be just enough to warn.
> I think the classification experimental / unstable is more from a Debian
> point of view to get some technical (library dependency) stuff tested in
> a sandbox. If users might simply miss the existance of openmolar because
> it is hidden in experimental which is not in their sources.list it is
> like "not packaged" which is not really in the interest of our users.
>
> People using software declared as *beta* should know what they are doing
> and we are just taking over the job of simplifying their work to install
> the software ... and for sure we try to make it as good as possible -
> but not better.
That's a breath of clarity. :) Very well said.
> Thanks for working on this
The pleasure is mine. I'm going to upload (to "unstable") this evening.
--
Regards,
Dmitry Smirnov.
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