* Joel C. Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-23 13:04:52]: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Obey Arthur Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The issue here with maintainer scripts downloading the bulk of the > > software is that it's against Debian policy and against the purpose of > > packages. There are some exceptions but there are for programs that are > > non-free anyway : flashplugin-nonfree, java-package, vmware-package... > > It's only an issue since Freenet gets updates so often. When it's > stabilized you can make a more standard package. >
When will it be stabilized? Will it ever be? > > And anyway, nobody sane would run an "aptitude upgrade" daily on cron. > > Perhaps for now Freenet packages should only be aimed at the unstable > branches of Debian, where a regular "aptitude upgrade" is normal. > What about ubuntu and other distros ? One of the points of packaging is to get more users and having freenet only in unstable repository defeats that purpose.
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