In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Sure, but only if two projects have at least some differences; in 'The > Cathedral and the Bazaar' popclient becomes fetchmail.
There are a lot differences between linda and lintian, especially the programming language. Which is if course a big point if you consider programmers can only help in one but not the other. > Whenever someone submits an ITP for the software A, whose functionality > is already provided in Debian by B, the standard question is "Why is A > better than B? From your long description it is not clear which are the > aspect that make them different." This standard question is annoying and unneeded. There is no point in deciding for one or the other package. And this is a quite new trend that debian community start to think they have the right to pick. Greetings Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]