Chris Gray wrote: > cp> recall. Now I don't know what the status of the maintainer of > cp> this package is, but what are the Debian policy/ethical issues > cp> involved if I suddenly piped up and said I had [unofficial?] > cp> packages available for this? > > It's called hijacking a package, and would be unethical unless you > made it very clear that your package is unofficial.
Er, no it's not. It's called putting a deb up in an unofficial apt repository. People do it all the time, and there is nothing unethical about it. This is free fortware, remember? "hijacking a package" is very bad loaded terminology that makes some hidden (and IMHO invalid) assumptions about the way Debian works. More importantly, you need an account on ftp-master to do it. -- see shy jo
