Bug#726490: sponsorship-requests: ethstatus/0.4.4 [ITA]
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
<arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 other [newer] tools have superseded ethstatus.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 :-(
Ok, feel free to ping me if you have second thoughts and want to
maintain this in Debian, or close the bug once you decide otherwise.
Regards,
Vincent
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