On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 01:27:50PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Donnerstag, den 09.07.2009, 09:47 +0200 schrieb Ketil Malde: > > My own stuff, the bioinformatics library, dependent applications, and > > the depended-on libraries, if necessary. > > > > I got criticised (in a review of a draft paper) for my program being > > hard to install on Debian, so I thought .deb's would be the way to fix > > that :-) > > > > If the software isn't wanted in Debian, I'd be happy to host my own > > aptable repo. We could also set up a common repo for Hackage stuff not > > (yet) in Debian - sort of a pre-unstable staging ground. > > I’m not saying it’s not, I’m just saying we should give it a thought. > There is already some bioinformatics software in Debian, so it should be > ok – especially if it’s full applications, and not just “libraries that > might be useful to some developers”.
I'm not sure what the current criteria for Debian packages is. But it seems to me that if its useful, even to a small number of people, someone is willing to maintain it and its licence is acceptable, then it ought to go in. Regardless of if it is a library or application. Regardless of if the problem-space is already present in Debian or not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
