Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: >>> It's hard to take this sort of discussion as anything but an attack >>> on ftpmaster, since there are plenty of teams in Debian that're >>> even less transparent and effective than us. But given how these >>> sorts of >> But they are less a hindrance to the daily work of maintainers, and can thus >> more easily be avoided/worked around/whatever. > > If you think ftpmaster is a hindrance to your daily work, it's trivial > to avoid it -- upload to your own site instead, or to > people.debian.org.
That is no solution. To me, "Debian work" does not mean just to create fancy packages, used by a couple of geeks who work with a huge sources.list. Rather, it means providing an operating system for users who want a sources.list as small as possible, perhaps only their CDs and security. > Given I personally worked around the lack of ftpmaster support for > pools for a good six to twelve months while developing testing, I > think I've got a reasonable basis for thinking this isn't such a big > deal. This work wasn't targetted at users at that stage, was it? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
