Bug#691972: smake ITP

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 04:26:19PM -0700, Eric Shattow wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Joerg Jaspert <joerg@ganneff.de> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>I am okay if the author is not my friend. Any technical reason to not
>have smake in Debian reposoitory?

Seriously - a hostile upstream is a bad thing if you want software to
work well in Debian. And Schily is about as hostile as they
get. Again, do you have a massive need for smake?

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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