#include <hallo.h> * Dominic Hargreaves [Tue, Jan 04 2005, 01:10:05AM]: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name : libsnowball-swedish-perl > Version : 1.01 > Upstream Author : Ask Solem Hoel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Snowball-Swedish/ > * License : Dual GPL/Artistic > Description : Stemming algorithm for Swedish
I would not accept all your libsnowball* packages in Debian and hope your sponsor will see it the same way. Reason: poisoning the package pool. Background: most of them (compressed) need about 5kB size. This is rudicuolous... a package of ~5kB that about ~5kB meta data to be included in the archive. For what reason? 0.0000001 percent of our users that may need it somewhen in the far future? I do not see a real/good/successful/promising application that makes use of this stuff. Looks like a nice demo for one-shot wow effect but should we distribute that metadata to hundred thousands of users (wasting _their_ diskspace/bandwith) just to make few ones happy? Think about it. There is the dh-make-perl, every admin can create such packages if needed _and_ wished. Debian is not playground for just "making your fingertipps on a great distribution". Do you really speak all that languages? Somehow I doubt. Regards, Eduard. -- <CHS> argl bin i deppert
