On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:58:58PM -0500, Alexander Winston wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 05:08, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 11:00:21PM -0500, Alexander Winston wrote: > > > g5 (0.2-5) unstable; urgency=low > > > * Morphed into a native Debian package. > > > > Why? > > From what I read, native Debian packages are not as complicated to > maintain.
The difference in ease of maintenance is negligible, and arguable. > Since upstream has disappeared, I thought this would be better. Please > correct me if I am wrong. Thank you. You should only make something a native Debian package if it was written specifically for Debian. It's pretty much always wrong to take something that has had a separate upstream life and make it native. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
