Am 28. Dezember 2016 05:31:39 MEZ, schrieb Ben Finney <bign...@debian.org>: >Howdy all, > >I recently donned the mantle of maintaining ‘dput’ and am carefully >making improvements. I am conscious of the special need for backward >compatibility so I am taking care to understand how the Debian >developer >community uses it today. > >So I'm now familiar enough, but still fresh enough, that feedback from >people with different experiences is particularly valuable. > > >What does ‘dput’ do that you think really should not be changed? > >What does ‘dput’ do that you wish it would stop doing? > >What do other tools do better than ‘dput’? Do you think that ‘dput’ >should change to do those tasks the same way? > > >The same questions can be asked of the ‘dcut’ program from the same >package. > >The ‘dput-ng’ package is one alternative that is sometimes suggested >when people hit the limits in ‘dput’. I am not a user of ‘dput-ng’ or >other alternatives, so am also seeking feedback from people who have >informed positions on choosing one over the other. > >Both newcomers and old hands are welcome to give responses on these >questions.
I'd like to see #791828 fixed and make it possible to habe dput and dput-ng installed the same time. -- Tobias Frost GPG fingerprint: 13C9 04F0 CE08 5E7C 3630 7985 DECF 849A A635 7FB7