On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:32:03PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > I don't see why it would be idiotic to fork the package. > If you can package this application better than the > current maintainer then go ahead and do so.
Forking packages outside of Debian might or might not achieve the goals you mention. Forking packages inside Debian is not only problematic but idiotic. Repeat after me: the package management system does not support package renames. Upgrades across packages with different names simply doesn't work. Going down that route for the little benefit of being elite^Wup to date for the sake of being up to date is not worth it. Talk with the maintainer. Or NMU. Or make noise on -devel. But don't "fork" packages. Marcelo
