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Re: Custom undocumented(7)s are just as bad.



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>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> writes:

    Jason> On 30 Jan 2000, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

    >> Why is there such an imperative need to get every peice of
    >> software out there i Debian, no matter how sloppily it is
    >> packaged?

    Jason> I agree with Manoj, it is far more important to have a
    Jason> smaller amount of really well packaged and high quality
    Jason> software than having hordes of badly packaged, low quality
    Jason> software.

Nice inciteful picture you draw here.  :-{

Numbers shouldn't be an argument, quality and only quality should.
Both of the software to be packaged, and of the package itself.

    Jason> I'd like to see some tighter restrictions on what 'new'
    Jason> packages can be passed on into the dist, as well as
    Jason> conditions for staying in.

Just make policy carry more weight... one can get the feeling that
policy is more or less a "Do it this way or...", "Or what?", "Or we
will frown at you".

If you restrict inclusion of packages... what will the criteria be?
Who will make up those criteria?

As I said, quality counts, and quality only.

If Debian should ever start restricting package inclusion based on
what a package does (judging quality of packaging is ok), it would be
time to fork.  And I guess there'd be lots of people who'd think the
same way.

Quality-and-only-quality-ly y'rs, J

PS: In case you were wondering: I *do* agree that many packages in
Debian are of less than desirable quality.  I know because I (almost
;-) compulsively install packages to try them out.

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