On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 02:43:08PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > Viral <viral@debian.org> writes: > > > I need to package kernel-patch-folk. However, the files are too big for > > me to download. > > Hang on if you can't download it, how are you going to use or test it? > Or are you saying you're packaging software you neither use nor can > test? Well, in this case, I thought an exception would be fine. Its just one giant patch, with a whole lot of experimental projects. It would be impossible to test them myself. All I could test for is that the patch applies cleanly, which I can do on any machine. Check out the list of patches, and you'll figure its not quite possible to test. http://folk.sourceforge.net/ My idea was that there would be people who would be interested in this, and a package would help there. I had to do it this way for my other package, mosix too. I couldn't completely test it. People on debian-beowulf helped with the testing basically as I didn't have a cluster at hand then, and the package got done fine and went into the archives. Is my argument fine ? If someone else would want to take over the packaging of kernel-patch-folk, I would be glad. viral -- There's someone in my head but its not me.
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