I've exchanged email with Paul Davis many many times. He's a reasonable guy. He won't prevent you from packaging it, but I wouldn't package it at this time if I were you.
Being included in a distribution opens the package up to a wider audience. If the project is still immature this can be a bad thing for two reasons. One is that people will try it out thinking it's ready to be used when it may still be buggy or unstable, and people will get a bad impression of it. The other is that it might work well, but still need to be changed a lot. If it has to interoperate with other things in some way, changing it could break compatibility and you'll end up needing to support lots of compatibility cruft. > What can you advice me to do ? Should I try to convince him ? Or package it > anyway ? I would ask him for a projected time frame for when he expects this to be stable enough to be packaged. If you feel you must package them, then I suggest that you offer to package them but not upload them to the main Debian archive. Just make the packages available from whereever he distributes his source. Eric
