On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 22:38:48 +0200 "A.J. Venter" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This is another part of the reason I wanted to stop calling this > > page the "blacklist." So far, it's been common to remove packages > > wholesale when we find that they include problematic software. > > That's understandable when there's not much manpower, but it > > doesn't have to be that way. If people are willing to put in the > > time and effort to make more targeted patches -- to remove only one > > problematic program, or even patch it so it's not problematic > > anymore -- we would be happy to see that happen. There might be > > low-hanging fruit here for interested contributors to work on -- > > feel free to get the word out. :) > I agree with this - we're getting bigger and there's more of us, and > some of us like kongoni are writing our own package build scripts and > patching as standard fare so this is becoming > a lot more feasible as an approach now. Time to start organising a central place for shared patches/tarballs perhaps? kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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