On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Juergen A. Erhard wrote:
> If Debian should ever start restricting package inclusion based on
> what a package does (judging quality of packaging is ok), it would be
> time to fork. And I guess there'd be lots of people who'd think the
> same way.
I think if you judge 'quality' quite broadly things are more sensible -
for instance, if someone perfectly packaged something like GTK True, I
still wouldn't want to see it in Debian - it is just useless, and we
already have a true program :P
There is lots of junk like that floating around out there. It is either
somebodies idea of a joke, badly duplicates something we already have,
or is unbelievably trivial. (look at some of the stuff on freshmeat)
If nobody seriously wants to use a package then it must have very low
'quality' (either because it is bad or useless, or something) thus we
should consider carefully why it is being included in Debian.
Jason
