Am Dienstag, den 26.03.2013, 00:10 +0800 schrieb Thomas Goirand: > On 03/25/2013 07:59 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 01:29:13PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > >> Am Samstag, den 23.03.2013, 13:13 +0100 schrieb Michael Stapelberg: > >>> Could you instead package jdownloader itself? > >> I tried, but failed miserable. Some libraries needs to be packaged and > >> the upstream build system needs to be bent to build on Debian. I would > >> love to ditch the launcher and replace it with a proper package. This is > >> a lot of work. Until this work is done, I like to have this launcher in > >> the contrib archive. This is suboptimal, but better than nothing. > > I'm not sure it *is* better than nothing, it could actually be worse. If you > > don't personally have the time to "do it properly", why not try and put > > together a team to do it? If you do a downloader instead, what you do is > > partially and sub-optimally meet the demand for a jdownloader package, which > > will dilute the motivation for people to work on a proper solution. Then we > > end up stuck with the sub-optimal solution. > > > > I think downloader packages where required for licensing reasons are an > > uneasy > > necessary evil, but for when the maintainer doesn't have time to package > > something? This seems like a really slippery slope to me. > I agree with Jonathan. I'd rather not see such a package in Debian. > What if everyone was doing that? We'd have a pretty bad main archive. > Plus this is a nightmare in terms of security. Or is it that you only plan > on providing security support for the downloader itself, and not for > the upstream package, which would be even worse?
JDownloader comes with an updater that will update itself. > Also, in what way having a jdownloader-installer package is much > better than using what's available upstream at > http://jdownloader.org/download/index ? They seem to provide an > Ubuntu package at least (but I haven't checked for it). The Ubuntu package is identical to the proposed jdownloader-installer package. The jdownloader-installer provides desktop integration (.desktop file + icons) over the upstream installer. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1364487914.2952.11.camel@deep-thought