Bug#726490: sponsorship-requests: ethstatus/0.4.4 [ITA]

[Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com>]

On 12 April 2014 09:46, Vincent Cheng <vcheng@debian.org> wrote:
> Control: tag -1 + moreinfo
>
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> wrote:
>> You wrote:
>>
>>   * Upstream is the same as Debian maintainer.
>>     Therefore, build a native Debian package
>>
>> IMO, that's a very bad idea. this is a pain for downstream Debian
>> derivative who may want to add specific patches. With a native package,
>> it becomes less convenient to add distro-specific patches. Please don't
>> do this and re-upload a version of your package as non-native.
>>
>> Generally, native packages are very Debian specific, like for example
>> apt, dpkg, etc. Unless you develop this kind of tool, IMO, don't use a
>> native package.
>>
>> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
>>
>> P.S: Some other DD may have a different opinion, like for example I know
>> Joey Hess finds it ok and even wrote about it, but I believe a majority
>> of DD will agree with me.
>
> +1 to what Thomas said above.
>
> Here's a very quick review of your packaging in
> https://github.com/aborrero/pkg-ethstatus (since I can't find an
> ethstatus package on mentors.d.n):
>

Thanks you for the review and time, Vincent.

Well, I talked with Christoph Haas about ethstatus.
He think that this old piece of software is, in fact, so old. Some
other [newer] tools have superseded ethstatus.

So, despite the initial effort I did to adopt ethstatus, I think I
will be dropping this ITA soon :-(

thanks, regards.

-- 
Arturo Borrero González