On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 08:18:51AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > In early November, people asked me to package br2684ctl, a new program > that has not been officially released by the linux-atm upstream. So I > would have to pull br2684ctl from upstream CVS and include it in my > package that contains released software only.
Why would you want to do this, rather than making a separate source package? Since they are obviouly not released together, it does not make sense to try to graft a CVS snapshot of br2684ctl onto linux-atm. > James Troup. He was unusually polite, but the mail exchange ended with him > announcing that "Well, sorry, but I'm personally not prepared to add > (overrides for) a package to unstable with nothing but an 8k binary and a > 1k manpage." I agree; if (for whatever reason) it was being built from the same source pacakge, I would just put it in an existing binary package. If you are concerned about its unreleased status, put a note in README.Debian, or (at most) in the package description. > Well, to make things short, the people who asked me to include > br2684ctl with linux-atm have prepared their own package - of course > still only consisting of an 8k binary and a 1k manpage and uploaded to > unstable. This time, the package was promptly ACCEPTed in a matter of > days > (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2003/debian-devel-changes-200311/msg00760.html). There are in fact multiple people who fill the role of ftpmaster; this package may have been processed by someone entirely different, who had a different opinion on the situation. -- - mdz