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Hi, Sandro.
On Apr 24 2009, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> 2009/4/24 Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>:
> > Thanks. I'm concerned with the status of Debian: it has too many
> > packages and many of them are bit-rotting. Not a pleasant thing. :-(
>
> Indeed, and many new contributors prefer to add new packages, instead
> of take care of the existing one. So I'm really happy you're pursuing
> this road :)
I, for one, would like to fix things that are broken before proceeding
with newer things. I regard that as something like: "doing your work
before having fun".
I see that the quality of Debian might drop if people don't get their
acts together and fix the existing bugs.
Many newcomers think that packaging things is the be-all, end-all, but,
to have a releaseable distribution, we have to care about the bugs that
we have (see, for instance, the plea for help from the mutt maintainers).
And, of course, the pain that is to get the RC bugs low before releasing
a new version...
> > Yes, there's where I actually started. Since I use a powerpc iBook,
> > I would love to keep pbbuttonsd, powerprefs, and gtkpbbuttons in the
> > distribution.
>
> If you really care for these packages, consider also adopting them,
> but that's not strictly required.
Yes, I do care about those packages, but I'm not exactly sure that I
would have the time to dedicate to them (even though I think that I have
the energy to deal with them). They are, OTOH, vital to a PPC notebook.
> > Another one that would be nice to keep is gutenprint and lprng,
> > which are especially nice to have with low-powered computers that
> > are serving printers, for instance.
Those packages are really, really important for low-resource machines.
> >> Well, upload to mentors.d.n and send a RFS here, as usual. I
> >> suggest to write explicitly in the RFS email subject that's a QA
> >> upload.
> >
> > Done.
>
> but please *also* state the name of the package you're RFSing :) I've
> changed teh subject to add also the pkg name.
Thanks. Forgot that important part. This is what one gets being
sleep-deprived. :-(
> If no-one comes first, I'll try to review your package withing the
> weekend.
Well, I'm just waiting. Any sponsors candidates?
dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/ttf2pt1/ttf2pt1_3.4.4-2.dsc
Thanks,
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