Martin Pitt wrote: > But IMHO it does make sense to have NMs to prove that they are able to > improve the existing Debian system, not only to make it grow by adding > new packages; otherwise, the whole distribution would get worse and > worse over time. IMHO it is more important to maintain a high-quality, > but smaller distribution than having a giant one which is in bad > shape. I think that this over-generalization is wrong. I strongly believe that some new packages (e.g. mine), which add a unique and requested function to Debian (here enabling chipcard based homebanking) are a much better enhancement to Debian than adopting some old ones (e.g. xtrojka - cf. Joey Hess' post to the "sister thread" on Debian). Cheers T.
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