hi thomas, thanks for your prompt answer.
Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Hi Alex, > > thank you for your interest in mini-dinstall and your efforts. It's good > to see work done on mini-dinstall! > > One or two general comments (I've not look at details yet): > - smaller patches for individual bugs would generally be preferable, though i began with applying the patches contributed on the devpage, it happens that applying some of them would require additional work when applying the others. my patches were much more obtrusive, and i haven't even dared to make a diff (i have even automatically translated tabs to spaces). > - I don't like the default installation of the init scripts for daemon > mode as I believe that queue mode is the more common and appropriate, i can't argue with your taste, but since each repository may take more than 20mb ram, and the documentation recommends daemon mode, i won't discourage an optional server installation. please take all my configuration files as examples. using debconf would generate much better environment, but i have no experience with this. > - gnupg should not be a dependency, only Suggests saying *should* means you know what you're saying ;-) . > - todo doesn't belong in the changelog, > - please capitalize correctly in the changelog, everything you saw there is a draft, so please feel free to comment or even overwrite. > - mini-dinstall will certainly not support alex-sid by default :) > (in fact "stable", "testing" and "unstable" are preferable to > sarge, etch, sid - if for nothing else then for apt behaviour w.r.t > default distros (but maybe this has been fixed)), apt works fine with either sid or unstable, provided they are defined in Release as codename and suite. this applies to the debian archive style, of course. > - providing a real mail address in any example file is not good. again, even though i have dput to mentors, i had no intention to directly publish it, so please make any changes you see suitable. > > alex bodnaru wrote: > >>my work and todo intentions are documented in both ChangeLog and >>debian/changelog. >>there was no intention to take the maintainership over, and my name is >>on top of the changelog only to allow me to sign the package. > > Eh, if you have a todo list, do you plan to sustain supporting > mini-dinstall? If so and you're not demotivated to much by above > critizism, you should become (co-)maintainer. mini-dinstall could > certainly profit from this. Ideally, we'd set up alioth project and svn > and commit-list or so. ... and maybe open a startup firm to provide mini-dinstall to the masses ;-) . sorry for the extrapolation. i would definitelly contribute to mini-dinstall, even officially, but btw, maintainers of native packages are also upstream maintainers? i hope to be able to devote some work to further improve mini-dinstall in the close future. btw i would add integration with apt-proxy to the todo list. > > Kind regards > > T. best wishes, alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
