* Joel C. Salomon <joelcsalomon at gmail.com> [2008-03-23 13:04:52]: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Obey Arthur Liu <arthur at milliways.fr> > 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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080323/39e2814d/attachment.pgp>
