On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 09:08:10PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > 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). And adopting is the only way to improve the existing system? I would argue that finding bad packages and *filing for their removal* is a far better example of improving the existing Debian system than adopting a package that no one uses. I also agree that Debian is already too big for us to continue adding unlimited developers to our ranks who are only interested in working on their pet packages. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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