Quoting W. Martin Borgert (2017-12-19 11:44:53) > Quoting Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk>: >> Ah, right: Helper tools to circumvent the quality assurance of Debian > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> packaging are indeed not reason for avoiding main. Sorry for the noise. > > We certainly can agree on that denomination! The list of such helpers > is long: elpa/melpa, firefox addon installer, flatpack, gem, npm, pip, > snapd, wgetsudosh/curlsudosh etc. We deliver all of them. > > For Gajim, I'm properly packaging all plugins, that are - to my > knowledge - of good quality and useful: antispam, httpupload, omemo, > pgp, roastertweak, triggers, urlimagepreview. Now plugininstaller. > > The plugin installer is for users who like to try plugins, that I'm > not willing to package, because I'm not convinced of their usefulness > or quality. Some users just *want* the tictactoe plugin! Uhm, now I am confused: You are packaging this specifically to ease installation of _low-quality_ Pidgin plugins? There is no rules against doing that, but it feels like going against the spirit of our striving towards high quality in Debian. I hope you will at least include a big fat warning in long description, and I wonder which mechanisms I might possibly establish (locally since I doubt Debian as a whole is willing to change by now) to track and avoid getting such low-quality-injectors installed on my own systems. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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