nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx said: > There's so much material to package and so little time. You don't do FE > packagers any favour by accepting everything they propose blindly. Please. I'm not sure how you can interpret what I wrote as "accepting everything they propose blindly". FE is a collection of packages that someone found useful enough to take the time to generate a clean package spec and push through review. We have duplicated functionnality in many packages. We offer choice. We also do our best to avoid bad packages. But I have a hard time equating missing feature with bad, that's all. > Sometimes > providing a checklist of strongly recommended technical features will help > them choose between competing apps. And they don't discover after months of > gruelling packaging work they bet on the wrong horse - no one's interested in > foo app because bar does the same (and is IPv6/UTF-8/x86-64/GTK-2 whatever > compatible) I'm not convinced packagers choose software to package randomly. I'm sure they have a reason when they try to package something, and if they choose to package foo instead of bar: why do you think it's a problem ? If bar is useful and so much better, someone is bound to package it at some point... Christian
