On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 11:07:57PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > to dists/woody/
> > add-on/
> > gnome-helix
> > kde
> > wouldn't alter that, while it would collect the existing add-on
> > collections, and clearly separate them from the main collection.
> Erm.. AJ.. I hope gnome-helix and kde are just ill considered examples and
> you are not suggesting we collect add-ons that have nothing to do with us
> [like helix] or that we have decided we have no right to distribute [like
> kde]
We can distribute KDE source, just not binaries. We don't distribute
source because that doesn't fit into any of our existing collections:
main and contrib are binary distributions, and KDE's not non-free,
orphaned, or experimental. So given people willing to maintain source
only packages, and that an area could be created for it, I think that
would be reasonable.
I don't see why gnome-helix isn't a part of the distribution right now,
since apparently there're a developer at Helix, but if the problem is
that it can't be a part of the official Debian distribution rather than
that it can't be a part of the Debian project, and given that there are
maintainers willing to maintain the .debs, and given that an area could
be created for it (none of which I'd guarantee), I think that would be
reasonable too. In particular, Helix is free software, and of a quality
that some of our users would appreciate its availability.
Certainly, I'd expect all the packages in there to have a Debian
maintainer taking care of them. Well, except for `orphaned' for obvious
reasons.
Helix might just be a completely bad example: I haven't looked into it
at all; but KDE makes sense in a similar manner to an IPv6 or slink's (?)
Gnome staging area: it's a set of packages that aren't (yet) suitable for
the Debian distribution, but that are still useful to some people, and,
presumably, the maintainers are working on getting them included into
the main distribution.
That's just my opinion though, voting for or against this amendment
isn't voting for or against KDE or Helix in any way.
Cheers,
aj
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