On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 04:41:27PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > / Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | AFAIK, there is no automatic way of doing this. What about adding a > > | new tag, something like CBP (cannot be packaged), to the wnpp? > > > > Why not simply close the bug and give an explanation? > > Because - when it really cannot be packaged and if the bug is archived - > someone comes again with an ITP for that and someone has to explain him > (or he does find out himself) that it cannot be packaged.
I think it's better as part of the web pages which somebody maintains than bugs rather than having perpetually open unable-to-package bugs for them. (We already have this! See <http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package>.) In some sense, all the existing wnpp bugs are bugs in Debian, so "this piece of software isn't packaged" is a valid wishlist bug, or "this package is without a maintainer" is a valid normal bug. But "this software cannot be packaged" is not our bug, it's just a statement of fact. Therefore, I think the bug analogy would be overstretched for this kind of thing. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
