Without even looking at them, I can tell you the following:
1) *if* the packages comply with dist.html, they will _never_ get into
potato.
2) If they don't comply with dist.html, you will not be allowed to
distribute them.
It's basically a lose/lose situation. If you want dist.html-compliant debs
for your own use or for unofficial use, that's fine. But they will never go
into debian, because they are in gross violation of debian's packaging
policy, and also there are already source packages for these programs in
debian.
--Adam
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 03:19:04PM +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> Announce of the following Debian GNU/Linux (potato) packages for testing:
>
> o qmail_1.03-0.5_i386.deb
> o dot-forward_0.71-0.2_i386.deb
> o fastforward_0.51-0.3_i386.deb
>
> o qmail-run_0.0.4_i386.deb
> o daemontools_0.70-0.6_i386.deb
> o ucspi-tcp_0.88-0.3_i386.deb
>
> All these packages together set up qmail as mail-transfer-agent on Debian
> potato.
>
> Debian/potato users: Please test these packages and take a look if they
> comply with http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html and
> http://cr.yp.to/qmail/var-qmail.html , they may go into woody later.
>
> Download:
> ftp://ftp.innominate.org/pub/pape/Debian/unofficial/{source,binary-i386}/
>
> Or just add
> deb ftp://ftp.innominate.org/pub/pape/Debian potato unofficial
> deb-src ftp://ftp.innominate.org/pub/pape/Debian potato unofficial
> to /etc/apt/sources.list .
>
> Regards, Gerrit.
>
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