* Steve McIntyre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030707 16:20]: > I realise that I may have just put off anybody who might have taken > netpbm, but I wouldn't want to see people pick it up expecting an easy > job. We might even be better off dropping the whole package > completely, but for the fact that it has quite a lot of dependents.
As you said, we should make at least a silent transition. IMHO we should split netpbm to a netpbm-legacy (to where all the programms are transfered) and then substitut the programms on a step-by-step basis with wrappers to usable[1] programms in netpbm-* (or already existing) packages). [1] "usable" means: have usable licences and a manpage. This would also mean that bugs to netbm are usually not fixed, and new versions not integrated in debian. As speaking alone doesn't help I have ITAed netpbm. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C