On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:00:12 PST, Bill Wohler writes:
Jeffrey Honig <jch(_at_)honig(_dot_)net> writes:I'm thinking we should look into providing a repo with our own debs that will run on both Debian and derivatives to increase the availability of the latest code.
<hat on, debian developer for exmh etc.> please don't. dealing with custom/halfbaked packages makes a packager's work a lot harder and annoying: as upstream you're supposed to be the expert on how to make the software work well. leaving the (occasionally messy) integration work to the integration expert minimizes the duplication of effort. </hat>
As long as Debian maintainers update their packages in a timely manner, and by and large, they do, I think that's more work than it's worth.
i've just created a wishlist bug (http://bugs.debian.org/655047) asking for the new version to be packaged.
And if we configure our nmh .deb differently from the way Nick does it, we'd be doing our users a disservice.
indeed - and if nick can't find the time to update nmh, then there's surely other debian developers who can step in. regards az -- + Alexander Zangerl + GnuPG Keys 0x42BD645D or 0x5B586291 + http://snafu.priv.at/ Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald Knuth
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