Re: Unofficial package tips
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:08:23PM +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
>
> > BTW never forget that external archive can be as dangerous as usefull.
> > Warn ALWAYS the user that is not an official repository and don't use it
> > only for your own "glory".. help the official maintainer with what it will
> > come out of its usage.
>
> Glory is an interesting choice of word.
I choose it carefully to underline what the Social Contract states:
"Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software"
basically (atleast in my specific case) when i started debian-ipv6 archive
i did with a specific purpoues to give people something more, exactly like
you do. But personally i do not care of getting "credits" for it. I am
much more glad to share the credits inside the team since it is a work
done by several people and developers (as you can read by my signature of
which I am extremely proud :-) ).
> Surely this is a win win situation for everybody? Any glory is really
> going to upstream (OK me in my case) for writing the code
> which others want, not to the packager, or maintainer of the debs.
I agree with you. my concern is that sometimes people do not see that far
inside what they have. not blaming anyone here but look at X for example.
I did never see someone on irc saying: "hey cool they released X4.3 ...
great job they did" but only things like: "hey Branden X4.3 is out when
will you package it?". Probably we often forget that we are "only" (well
me not yet :-) ) a layer between the upstream and the user.
> I guess the only tricky part is knowing when a package is sufficiently
> popular that it should go into Debian for real. I've not reached
> that point with any of my little .debs, but I can imagine others
> have.
IMHO even the smallest bit is important. probably we are lacking a way to
understand how users make use of that bit and understand how mush usefull
is or not...
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drac (1.11-7) unstable; urgency=low
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-- Noel Koethe <noel@debian.org> Sun, 9 Feb 2003 19:33:00 +0100
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