Greetings, I have a package that I have made a while back, which a lot of friends really find usefull. Essentially, it's a script that calls combinations of APT options and deborphan, to keep a system running Testing up-to-date, but cruft-free.
Given the great feedback I've received from people who have my personal repository in their sources.list, I was thinking of submitting this package to the Debian project itself. My sponsor thinks that perhaps such a trivial script would be better released as a part of APT or deborphan, so he prompted me to ask for advice here. Personally, I foresee difficulties in doing this, since APT and deborphan tend to be packages with very utilitarian purposes; one would not include something that might be construed as a trivial demo of either one. Besides, my package comes with 2 man pages of its own and a config file in /etc as well, so I think that it has reached the stage where it is no longer a trivial demo, even though the APT and deborphan tricks it does are simple. Anyhow, I would prefer keeping it a separate package. What do the mentors of the list think? -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/
