On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Obey Arthur Liu <arthur at milliways.fr> wrote: > The issue here with maintainer scripts downloading the bulk of the > software is that it's against Debian policy and against the purpose of > packages. There are some exceptions but there are for programs that are > non-free anyway : flashplugin-nonfree, java-package, vmware-package...
It's only an issue since Freenet gets updates so often. When it's stabilized you can make a more standard package. > And anyway, nobody sane would run an "aptitude upgrade" daily on cron. Perhaps for now Freenet packages should only be aimed at the unstable branches of Debian, where a regular "aptitude upgrade" is normal. --Joel
