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Re: questions regarding libmimelib1 as seperate source package



In <20090424190226.GB6526@resivo.wgnet.de>, Jonas Meurer wrote:
>- I packaged mimelib as a native debian package as no real upstream
>  package does exist any more.

That's not a good enough reason.  Could the sources be useful in a non-
Debian-derived distribution such as openSUSE, CentOS, Slax, or Arch?  If so, 
Debian can be upstream but still produce non-native packages.

Packages should be non-native unless they are fairly Debian-specific.
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