On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 17:32:29 +0200, Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:51:49PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> In the past years, I have found it annoying that the eicar anti-virus >> testfile is not available as aptable Debian package. > >Why is this annoying?
Because it makes debugging anti-virus software harder, and forces maintainers of anti-virus packages to have their own means of obtaining eicar.com for testing purposes >> I find it disturbingly impolite to say "sorry, we don't want your >> volunteer work" _after_ the work has been done. Especially if it is done >> in Mr. Troup's usual "why did you bother me in the first place, mere >> mortal" style. > >Frankly, with this particular one, I entirely fail to see why you ignore >several perfectly valid reasons laid out in the reasonably polite (if a bit >dazzled) rejection notice and go off ranting instead. Saying a package is "silly" is a valid rejection reason in your opinion? Another reason is that a package depending on and recommending eicar-testfile would have to go into contrib. Yes, right, but there is Suggests: which allows a package suggesting eicar-testfile to stay in main. And forbidding code-reuse by suggesting that packages needing eicar.com could download the file themselves (probably forcing these packages to go into contrib themselves while they could be in main if eicar-testfile were in debian) is not a reason as well? Well, _I_ find it impolite to say work that has been done by a volunteer is "silly". Actually, I find it discouraging to do any more future work for Debian Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29