Bug#544071: closed by Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> (Closing this RFP)
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:22:07PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> > which was filed against the wnpp package:
>
> > #544071: RFP: svgtune -- tool to generate a set of .svg files out of a single .svg file
>
> > It has been closed by Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>.
> >> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 08:51:55 +0200
> >> From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> >> To: 544071-done@bugs.debian.org
> >> Subject: Closing this RFP
> >>
> >> I am closing this RFP since a package was already rejected by the
> >> ftp-masters based on the tiny size of the software.
>
> yeap -- "unprecedentedly" tiny size (if we exclude personal distastes of an
> ftpmaster):
My point is that an RFP for a package that won't get accepted
doesn't make sense.
>...
> $> dpigs -n 50000 | nl | grep -4 -e svgtune -e 'bogofilter$'
>...
> --
> 6446 1 ipython1x-notebook
> 6447 1 ipython01x-qtconsole
> 6448 1 ipython01x-parallel
> 6449 1 ipython01x-notebook
> 6450 1 bogofilter
>
> as you can see -- it is not even a winner with more than 200 of smaller source
> packages and nearly 10% (reported by dpigs) of archive containing smaller
> binary packages.
I cannot even see these ipython* you list anywhere in the archive at all.
And no matter how to think of the rejection of svgtune, comparing it's
size to the size of (empty) meta and transitional packages (these are a
sizable part of the 10%) is not a reasonable comparison.
>...
> Cheers,
cu
Adrian
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