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Re: What Debian-qa policy for sorting packages?



Le Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 09:55:31AM +0100, Thierry Laronde écrivait:
> 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?

If someone wants to maintain a package like playmidi then we let it. But
if the package is not maintained and is quite buggy and if we have other
better alternatives, then we should simply drop it.

I suggest that you fill a bug report against ftp.debian.org and ask them
to remove the package.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/
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