Paul Wise wrote: > This is why I think packaging it at all is possibly a bad idea since > people running Debian stable/oldstable will always have old > information. It would be better if the software that uses it were to > be responsible for downloading it periodically.
I respectfully disagree. If we take that path, then we might as well allow usb-modeswitch to download its latest "modeswitching" strategies for the 3G dongles that need one. Oh and usb-modeswitch could then also update its binary too as "anyone wants the latest" anyway. Having that type of data packaged and uploaded to our archive puts trust on its contents. You don't get any close to that level of trust with programs that download random stuff from the Internet for their uptodatedness; especially when the "random stuff" is critical for the Internet access (as mobile-broadband-provider-info can be). In fact, I would be suprised if our Stable Release Managers were to refuse updates of such data packages. Cheers, OdyX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jalh95$kqe$1...@dough.gmane.org
