Re: RFS: rafb

[Moe Smith <filter-deb@mbox.bz>]

On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 20:13 +0100, David Bremner wrote:
> Hi Moe;
> 
> Your package seems to be native, and has lintian warnings (with the
> latest lintian in sid). 

Sorry, my bad.
I just uploaded a fixed version 1.0-6, my lintian (from lenny)
doesn't complain about that one anymore. Please let me know if
there are still problems.

> At the risk of the pot calling the kettle
> black (see wdg-offline-validator), I think you also need to sell
> people a bit on why a 100 line perl script needs its own package.

Well, I'd hope packages are judged by their usefulness, not
by their size. :-)

rafb is a one-trick-pony. I created it because I found nothing
similar in debian. I unfortunately missed 'pastebinit'
by David Paleino in my search because my first contact with
mentors was when I sought a way to upload my newly created
package...

Anyways, what is the general debian policy about one trick ponies?
Can multiple alternatives go in or should only one be chosen?

I do think that at least one pastebin CLI utility should be made
available - unless I'm the only one actually using these.


regards, moe