* Sun 2004-10-10 Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin.com> | On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 09:41:43PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: | | >I want to maintain shellsupport, a simple (bourne) shell scripting | >support helper. It is a commandline C program that provides those | >features I miss when writing portable shell scripts, because they are | >not covered by other portable (Posix 1003.2) tools. | > | >http://www.cons.org/cracauer/shellsupport.html | | Is this offered by any other distribution? I like to limit package | acceptance to something that would conceivably show up in Mandrake,
I would more like to see the policies to more like in Debian, where - Any package would be good as well as somebody maintains it - If package is unmaintained it is pulled off. I think to would encourage people more into contributing. A discussion about package's "merits" before it is included is rather a personal opinion and tend to favor the look of ivory tower, so to speak. Jari