release as a package or add to APT's file list?
Greetings,
I have a package that I have made a while back, which a lot of friends really
find usefull. Essentially, it's a script that calls combinations of APT options
and deborphan, to keep a system running Testing up-to-date, but cruft-free.
Given the great feedback I've received from people who have my personal
repository in their sources.list, I was thinking of submitting this package to
the Debian project itself. My sponsor thinks that perhaps such a trivial script
would be better released as a part of APT or deborphan, so he prompted me to ask
for advice here.
Personally, I foresee difficulties in doing this, since APT and deborphan tend
to be packages with very utilitarian purposes; one would not include something
that might be construed as a trivial demo of either one. Besides, my package
comes with 2 man pages of its own and a config file in /etc as well, so I think
that it has reached the stage where it is no longer a trivial demo, even though
the APT and deborphan tricks it does are simple. Anyhow, I would prefer keeping
it a separate package.
What do the mentors of the list think?
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Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant
http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/
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