Re: policy summary
Richard Braakman writes ("Re: policy summary"):
> On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 09:38:17PM +0000, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> > OTOH, new packages with lintian errors tend to get rejected - it would
> > be unfair to reject new software simply because it contains no man pages...
>
> Frankly, I like the idea. I think packages are being created far too
> lightly these days. Writing a manpage for the program takes a bit of
> thought and research, and is useful to boot. If a maintainer isn't
> prepared to do that much for the package, then I say he has no business
> packaging it.
Nonsense.
The solution to there being too many packages is not to arbitrarily
restrict the available packages to ones whose maintainers or authors
are less busy (and probably less good ...)
Ian.
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