Bug#639657: O: dwm

[Jeremy Allard <elvis4526@gmail.com>]

2011/8/29 Nico Golde <nion@debian.org>

Hi,
* Jeremy Allard <elvis4526@gmail.com> [2011-08-29 11:26]:

> I tried to contact the maintainer but I have no news from him. Dwm is at versions 5.9 at this name and his packages is 5.8.2.
>
> The package description is:
>  <Dwm is a dynamic windows manager>

Given that dwm is configured by compiling the source, how useful is a package
of this software anyway? I guess most uses will always stick to upstream
sources instead.

Kind regards
Nico
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Yes, you can compile it by source too but I think it's better to provide the package inside the debian archive for those who are find with the default configuration and for those who want to change something in config.h, they just have to fetch it and rebuild it with the native debian tool. It's more consistent with the rest of the system.
But this is my opinion. I could take care of maintaing the package through debian-mentor too. I made package for amd64 on my machine and they works very well.