[no need to CC me, I'm subscribed to d-mentors] On Seg, 2004-10-18 at 11:01, Chris Vanden Berghe wrote: > Hi Leo, Hi > I decided to make my own gaim-encryption package, since: Your motives are perfect. I agree with all of them. > You're right about the gaim headers: it would be much nicer to have a > gaim-dev package (that's why I also wrote to the gaim maintainers). > But, since it is not there and it won't be there in the near future > we're better off being pragmatic and transition to the ideal solution > when it's possible. Perfection is nice, but I rather prefer to have a > pragmatic but working solution than none. That's where we differ. IMO a kludgy solution belongs in a personal repository, not in the official one. > In response to your three points: > 1) only when the gaim plugin APIs change (and they should be backwards > compatible throughout the 1.x.y versions), so that is not such a big > problem True, hopefully. > So, no, it is not a Debian-only patch. It is a solution to the > incorrect assumption the nobody would compile gaim with --disable-nss. > This is now in the default upstream release. This is good. > Btw, I would have contacted you if I knew you were serious about adding > your package to the main repository... I certainly did not try to > package it behind your back, I did make an ITP and talked about it with > the gaim maintainers and the upstream developer. None of them told me > about your efforts. That's OK, I just got a little upset, but nothing personal. Furthermore, my upseting shouldn't get in the way of us doing Debian work. > So, in short: I still think gaim-encryption is a very useful package to > have in Debian, and no I don't think my package is a 'hacky' one. Sorry > about the bad communication, though, that was my fault... I should have > looked harder for a possible ITP bug. The usefulness is not questioned, but I still think it's not ideal and it doesn't pass my personal[1] threshold for entry into the archive. I am trying to recompile Gaim and create a dev package, if I succeed I'll poke Robert McQueen about uploading it, if he agreed. That should solve all our problems (in an ideal world, as you pointed out). Cheers [1] To stress it out: that's my opinion, anyone can still sponsor you. -- Leo Costela <costelaaa@ig.com.br> | <costela@debian.org> | <costela@wallsplash.net> "you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest... with... a herring!"
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