On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 03:41:16PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > Marcus, are you still interested in that? I can understand if your > enthusiasm died away some time in the last 4 years...
Not only did my enthusiasm die away about 3 years ago, I am also highly suspicious if implementing the right technical solution is in the best interest of Debian, which by now has to give a higher precedence to stability and compatibility. (This was already true 4 years ago, it is just even more true today). The solution that is going to be implemented will probably only provide a subset of all desirable features, chosen on the basis what still works without introducing too many new problems. I don't know enough about Debian's archive software to give advice on what that could possibly be, and I don't have time to get this knowledge. The only circumstances that could get me to tackle this issue again would be a new archive system for the GNU system, but even for that I wouldn't have much time these days. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/
