On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 05:11:16PM +0200, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: > On Friday 02 January 2009, Ana Guerrero wrote: > > > Anyway, without beeing a DD, as a debian user, I'd like to have this > > > program available as a package. > > > > > > So, to conclude, just take a moment to reply with at least a simple go-on > > > or don't-go-on. I won't argue any more. > > > > You are free to package it and ask people to sponsor it. Nobody can forbid > > you of uploading a proper package to Debian if you find a sponsor, but > > think in the work that this will carry to the distro for maybe little gain. > > Your package will be some time in unstable, yeah, but its final target > > won't be being in a debian release given that squeeze (next release after > > lenny) will have KDE 4. > > I believe that I cannot take such a decision myself. From my POV (as a debian > user) I want this program to be in debian and that's why i packaged it (as > expected, I'm also using it). Fotis offered to sponsor it but I don't want to > introduce problems to debian, so I'll follow your advice. > > As for KDE4, krypt will be usable for squeeze too and when the author ports > it > to KDE4 it will be ported for debian too. Having this in debian may increase > the interrest of other/new users for it and they may offer to do the porting > themeselves. As I see it, its main/only problem is that it will be replaced > by built-in support in KDE4 sometime in the future (perhaps in KDE 4.3) but > until then (1 year from now?) it is an essential tool for all > encrypted-USB-stick, encrypted-USB-disk and > laptop-with-encrypted-data-partition KDE3/4 users. >
In case it is not clear, my advise is: if you really want to do things right, wait for the KDE 4 port, and upload it directly to Debian. If the tool is really so handy (not saying it is not, i just have not used it), it does not need to be in Debian to "encourage" its porting. Hopefully in 2 month, KDE 3.5 will be only in lenny that does not allow new packages and unstable will contain KDE 4.2. > p.s. Should I stop CCing you? I am already subscribed to pkg-kde-talk, but i do not mind it. -- http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-kde-talk