On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 03:59:00PM +0100, Nicolas Bourdaud wrote: > > Nemo is a complete fork of Nautilus 3.4 and its goal is to extend the Cinnamon > user experience to desktop and file management.
I don't think it is currently a sensible decision to introduce duplicate GNOME3 packages into Debian. Nautilus 3.4 is currently available through GNOME3, so this would introduce redundancy. Also, I am not really convinced of the quality of the packages by Linux Mint. The mdm display manager in the current Linux Mint release is a dirty fork of the original gdm 2.20 code with the word "gdm" regexp-replaced by "mdm" (the readme [1] refers to "ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/mdm/"; as the download location, for example). Also, the debian directory contains a control.in template which is never used (since this was part of the original Debian package). The package doesn't cleanly co-install with gdm nor gdm3, contains tons of lintian errors and uses a completely outdated version of debhelper. I don't think such packages would meet the quality standards of Debian. Also, last time I checked, Linux Mint Debian itself mixes packages from unstable with their own repository and I have seen many package conflicts with this setup. I think a derivative distribution should always maintain their own complete repository. Cheers, Adrian > [1] https://github.com/linuxmint/mdm/blob/master/README > [2] https://github.com/linuxmint/mdm/tree/master/debian/control.in -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121109160657.ga28...@physik.fu-berlin.de
