Bug#86242: UPS's and linux ... upsd vs other packages
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> Adrian Bunk,
>
> The upsd package is up for adoption, IIRC. Let me jump right in and
> explain my situation.
>
> I'm a relatively new Debian Package maintainer, and want to maintain
> some more packages... (I have only one so far). I have this (possibly
> mis-)conception that it is best to maintain packages that one uses. I
> have ordered a UPS at a local store, and as such am coincidentially
> looking at ups software for linux. I have a choice between an APC (500)
> and a "WELI" 600... never heard of WELI before, but there is supposedly
> not much difference between UPS's. Is this true though from a linux
> perspective?
>
> What does upsd provide that other ups packages does not? Or do they all
> provide the same but in a different way, as so much other linux software
> out there: simply a choice of what you like the most.
>...
I don't use upsd, I did only adopt it to avoid it's removal from unstable.
Please ask Sean Preston <sean@crypto.co.za> who wants to adopt this
package.
> Thanks,
> Hugo van der Merwe
cu
Adrian
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