Bug#691972: smake ITP
I am okay if the author is not my friend. Any technical reason to not
have smake in Debian reposoitory?
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Joerg Jaspert <joerg@ganneff.de> wrote:
> Hi
>
> please note that this package already was in Debian, it got removed
> with #462152.
>
> Please also keep in mind who the upstream author is, and the very much
> unfriendly clima between him and Debian. There is a good reason why much
> more useful software than smake from him is not in Debian. Using google
> or just the Debian listarchives will give you lots of hits, if you want
> to waste some time going over it.
>
> Basically, unless you have a very good reason to package this (any
> important other software you want to package that depends on this?),
> there is a strong recommendation to *not* try to upload this to Debian.
> It is unlikely that it will get accepted.
>
> --
> bye, Joerg
> But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make
> God madder and madder.
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