New maintainer intending to package pavuk

1998-06-18 Thread zorton
Hi, i'm going to try and package up pavuk. Pavuk is a url grabber that supports Gopher, HTTP, and FTP. It's main UI is based off the console however it does support a rather nice (if a bit buggy) X mode. The X mode uses gtk or Xlib, i've worked with the gtk version and will recompile for

Re: New maintainer intending to package pavuk

1998-06-18 Thread Shaleh
Policy is not set in stone. There are times when it makes little sense. I say make a console version, then make a X package. The X version can have a gtk and/or Xlib version. Are you also going to help him maintain the upstream source now that he is away? I thought about this back in March, b

Re: New maintainer intending to package pavuk

1998-06-18 Thread zorton
> Policy is not set in stone. There are times when it makes little > sense. I say make a console version, then make a X package. The X > version can have a gtk and/or Xlib version. Are you also going to help > him maintain the upstream source now that he is away? I thought about > this back i

Re: New maintainer intending to package pavuk

1998-06-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 08:12:05PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > Policy is not set in stone. There are times when it makes little ^^ But please discuss any violations you intend to commit in debian-policy. I think a policy that is not set in stone is not useful. Ian Jackson pro