Re: RFS: gtk-theme-switch (updated package)
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Neil Williams schrieb:
> On Sat, 2 May 2009 12:57:33 +0200
> Denis Briand <denis@narcan.fr> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:35:14PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
>>> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei@debian.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Since this release it is maintained as a Debian native package.
>>> That doesn't mean it is correct to do so :)
>> Hello,
>> Thank you for the upload.
>> I can put it in non-native package for futur version if it cause some trouble.
>> I let it in native because it was in native since 2004.
>> The upstream is dead.
>
> Just because upstream is dead and you have become the de facto upstream
> by packaging it for Debian, does not mean that the package is native to
> Debian. It is still a non-native package - just that it's one that only
> exists in Debian and has a Debian maintainer in upstream. That is
> exactly the same situation as drivel, pilot-qof and gpe-expenses are
> for me, but those are still non-native packages because they can (and
> do) work on other distributions. The fact that they were not originally
> available on anything other than Debian is irrelevant.
>
> Native packages are a special case and should not be abused.
>
Hi Neil,
we solved it on IRC, it will be changed with the next release.
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Patrick Matthäi
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