What Debian-qa policy for sorting packages?
Hello,
I have looked at some orphaned packages ( cgi-scripts ITR later, sysutils
ITA) and was considering playmidi too. My problem is the following :
- Playmidi is still used by some people (I made a mini-survey on
debian-french) but it seems that the main cause of its use is the
straightforward name of the package : when one looks for a program
which *plays midi* files, the result is obvious;
- There are numerous pending bugs, but upstream dependant;
- There is an alternative --- timidity --- that is:
* equal or more free ;
* does the same or more things ;
* IIRC more actively under development ;
* heaviest because it does software emulation ;
* but then also hardware independant.
One of the problem is that the name is definitively less obvious.
So my question : what is Debian-qa team's policy about this ? Do you
prefer to have less packages, but the *best* (freeness, usefullness,
actively maintained and developed ---I personnaly prefer a usefull
non-free one to a useless absolutely free beast), or do you think that
we must have the largest choice, each package being maintained as good
as it can be?
Cheers,
--
Thierry LARONDE
thierry.laronde@polynum.com
website : http://www.polynum.com
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