On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Charles Plessy wrote:
my last email exchange with them was two years ago and it left me with the impression that they do not generate their binary Debian packages from Debian source packages, but with some tool similar to "checkinstall".
Well, I do not know checkinstall, but I had some conversation with them as well and kept in mind that they are doing "something else" than policy compliant packages. The only thing I remember is that "I was not convinced by their method" - but this does not bring us any bit foreward in cooperation.
Did you contact them recently?
No, I did not and I tried to give some reasons in my last mail. IMHO it is better to show some interest by jost *doing* something that might be attractive for them and start the contact once this is done - or at leats there is some proof that we are honestly interested. I just learned that this is a better entry point into a discussion.
If yes, can you ask them if they have source packages or not?
I would do so if we *really* start to build a package that is available in their repository and we want to use it. Only asking out of thin air sounds quite academic - feel free to prove me wrong.
I had a look to their categories, and apparently the same package can be in more than one. In the end, they look more like Debtags to me. It has been a long time that I wonder if it will soon be necessary to split med-bio, but I am still undecided.
You are perfectly right - DebTags seems like the tool of choice. I'm also really undecided about a split - I just was gathering opinions. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]