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Packaging qmail for Debian

Packaging qmail for Debian

Posted Dec 5, 2008 13:45 UTC (Fri) by nhippi (subscriber, #34640)
In reply to: Packaging qmail for Debian by jake
Parent article: Packaging qmail for Debian

> ...are they the arbiters of taste for Debian as well?

There is a difference between "being the arbiter of taste" and just expressing your personal taste. Notice that he specifically asks to reconsider rather than flat out deny.

> It *does* seem puzzling to me that a small group could block the inclusion
> of a popular MTA based on what seem to me to be fairly arbitrary biases,
> some incorrect ones at that. The process seems broken to me and I was
> trying to make that opinion clear in the article.

I'd see the process broken only if they block it merely on taste, even after all the technical issues are fixed and incorrect biases have been corrected.

The real problem here is the slowness in processing of ALL new packages by ftp-master.


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