On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:46:33AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > BTW: Yes there is some sarcasm spread in this mail. > > Should we remove this .deb from our ftp site? The site above is just a > mirror.
In my opinion it's a bad idea to distribute the package for the reasons I tried to explain in the original discussion. I don't feel that it's up to me to judge if it's still a valuable contribution that helps other people who know what they're doing. Of course one might consider the original post as a proof that the poster wasn't able to read and/or understand the implications of http://lyx.cybermirror.org/bin/1.5.3/lyx_1.5.3_i386_etch.README which are of course a bit missleading because this package doesn't depend on anything. What's missing is a policy with standards a contributed package has to fulfill to be accepted. I would start with the inclusion of a proper[1] source package so that there is a chance to spot problems and maybe resolve them. To be honest even I contributed to this mess years ago with some more or less sane packages for the Connectiva distribution. So all in all I would remove all the checkinstall based packages. Cheers, Sven [1] Whatever proper means for the various system distribution. -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep]
