-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Neil Williams schrieb: > On Sat, 2 May 2009 12:57:33 +0200 > Denis Briand <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:35:14PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >>> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Patrick Matthäi <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Since this release it is maintained as a Debian native package. >>> That doesn't mean it is correct to do so :) >> Hello, >> Thank you for the upload. >> I can put it in non-native package for futur version if it cause some >> trouble. >> I let it in native because it was in native since 2004. >> The upstream is dead. > > Just because upstream is dead and you have become the de facto upstream > by packaging it for Debian, does not mean that the package is native to > Debian. It is still a non-native package - just that it's one that only > exists in Debian and has a Debian maintainer in upstream. That is > exactly the same situation as drivel, pilot-qof and gpe-expenses are > for me, but those are still non-native packages because they can (and > do) work on other distributions. The fact that they were not originally > available on anything other than Debian is irrelevant. > > Native packages are a special case and should not be abused. >
Hi Neil, we solved it on IRC, it will be changed with the next release. - -- /* Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards, Patrick Matthäi GNU/Linux Debian Developer E-Mail: [email protected] [email protected] Comment: Always if we think we are right, we were maybe wrong. */ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkn8jCEACgkQ2XA5inpabMfUqQCeIC9gFO6R7eH1uHnJWgiraibx uYMAnRw3LuLacEgdsCf3RuJHmLBO6AOd =jlxr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
