Bug#517790: ITP: mydns -- DNS server using MySQL or PostgreSQL for data storage

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 04:42:19PM +0100, Sylvain Rochet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:02:08AM -0600, William Pitcock wrote:
> > 
> > What does this have over PowerDNS?
> 
> Probably nothing, else that I am using it and packaging it for my own 
> and thought that it would be a good idea to contribute to Debian, is 
> redundancy a problem ?

Even if you're a perfectly responsible maintainer, a new package still
requires some work by ftpmaster, the release team, possibly the security team,
and so on.  It also increases the number of options a user has to choose
between.  If the package is redundant, this is a waste of their time.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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