-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Fri, 1 May 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
> Let me lay out my opinion of the differences of the effects of the two > methods: Let me tell you that there is a workaround for all your objections :-) > Method pine-src: > --------------- > - the user who hasn't discovered debian-user or ftp.debian.org, but > just has an official CD (and barring some unexpected marketing, > official Debian CDs will be much more numerous than CDs mixing in > non-free stuff) will conclude that pine isn't available for Debian. I don't think this will happen. People already know that pine is not free, and that "non-free" does not come in official CDs. People already know since Debian 1.3.1 that that need FTP to get pine. > - the user on a high-enough speed connection to be using dselect's ftp > method will see "pine-src" in the menu and conclude that that's what > they need to install pine. pine396-src will Recommends: pine396-diffs. > - the pine-src package will be a huge thing to download each time a > new pine .diff.gz is released. (the "three .debs" way seems > incredibly convoluted, especially when a pine-installer can do the > whole thing in a much cleaner fashion). Only the pine396-diffs package will have to be downloaded for each time a new pine is released. > - various people will get very upset about having the pine source > twice on debian mirrors - a bit superfluous, no? Since we already distribute the original pine source in the source directory, I plan to keep the original tarball out of the pine396-src source package and use md5sum to check that the original tarball is really present. pine396-src.deb will be quite big, but since we save some space by not having the real binary .deb packages, I don't think we waste too much space. Summary: Go ahead, create an installer. Today I will upload the first release of pine396-src and pine396-diffs. You can base your installers on these packages if you like, but I don't want to maintain an installer package. Thanks. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNUoIeiqK7IlOjMLFAQGY4AQAq8PyRZXD2RxbUAO4pb069vSq5I5UW/x+ P5rkZmU1sest79MG+9wg7xHPo7+atTdEpBD2RV1QB+eATMnkRBor+EyJ6dVLxa6u jkZtFaiavvXNvoj8UUw9MHPwMxJGKXDc7RvvvR8PiVM7r9R0wC/VwJF36XU2Odv0 Q14CeQSvoSU= =Wfo2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
