Re: Package with dinstall
Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:07:59AM +0200, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote:
> > James Troup writes:
> > > "Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona" <jgb@gsyc.escet.urjc.es> writes:
> > >
> > > > Just out of curiosity. Is there any package with dinstall?
> > >
> > > No.
> >
> > Thanks for the confirmation. Any special reason, or it is just that
> > nobody did it?
>
> AFAIK the latter.
Yes. dinstall (or katie) is like wanna-build; ``packaging it''
(i.e. simply putting the relevant files into a .deb) is trivial but
actually _packaging_ it into a real, useful, working .deb isn't.
Worse yet, the most obvious people to package it (authors and/or
people using it a) all have working, existent setups and so no
particular need for a package, b) are usually busy because
ftpmaster/porters tend to have lots of other (usually more important
ITO) things to do.
*shrug* patches always welcome, etc. blah blah.
--
James
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