s?, 2003-08-10 kl. 00:49 skrev Norbert Tretkowski: > today I had a discussion with the gqview maintainer (Ryan Murray) > about bugreport #197734. I offered a NMU, which updates the package to > a 'beta' version, because the maintainer had not responded to the > wishlist bugreport. > > This so called beta version runs very stable for me, but Ryan replied > that he does not want a beta version.
Obviously, it is his right as the maintainer to refuse to include beta quality software in his package. But I guess you already knew that. > So, what to do now? Create a new package, called gqview1.3? I wrote an > ITP for gqview1.3, but after a discussion with Sebastien Bacher on IRC > I'm not sure if this is the best way. Since we are talking about beta quality software, I would suggest making an unofficial package available to interested parties for a while, before filing an ITP/including it in Debian proper. That way, you get a much better estimate of the softwares stability. I've had good results distributing the beta version of pan via http://www.apt-get.org/ This of course, is only a suggestion. -- S�ren O.
