Bug#622960: ITA: freemind -- Java Program for creating and viewing Mindmaps

[Reinhard Tartler <siretart@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Willem van den Akker
<wvdakker@wilsoft.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Simply because:
> -    first it is already in Debian and needs a maintainer;
> -    secondly, I think freemind is a nice piece of software and it works for
> me. I someone
>      needs more modulair software then freeplane is the choise.
> -    third: freeplane adds an additional 52MB extra (java) software. So why
> should I need that?

Points 2 and 3 seem valid to me, and would vastly the package
description if mentioned there.

>
> If someone can work with Gedit, why install Libreoffice? ;)

The comparison between gedit and libreoffice does not apply as they do
not, unlike freeplane and freemind, stem from a common codebase.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard