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



On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:10:21PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> > 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.

If it is really redundant then it is also a waste of upstream's time. William,
since you're trying to package it, could you compare it in detail to PowerDNS,
and if there is really little difference, try to see if both upstreams can work
together and merge their efforts? That would help everyone in the end.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
      Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

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