On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, William Pitcock wrote: > > > But if you are worried about the QA and security team, then why not > > create an unsupported repo. It could even be a good solution towards > > recruiting new DDs. > > > > Lets call it, say, 'community', 'extras', or 'unsupported'. > > Please don't!
Why not? unsupported.d.n could be the right place for packages that are "not good enough for Debian (yet)". It could be a good place to merge packages removed from Debian for having no users (or whatever), uploaded to Ubuntu, Nexenta, Preventa, mentors, revu and any other Debian-based distros that have public archives. A while ago on -devel there was a post about automatic creation of rough packages using automatic software discovery and AI techniques for the packaging, such packages could be uploaded to unsupported. Upstreams often make Debian packages but don't upload them anywhere, unsupported could be a place for them. I've often wanted to package some cool software (see the list on my wiki page), but not maintain it forever, so I didn't bother and just moved on. Instead I could just upload to unsupported. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
