Hello, On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 05:32:48PM -0400, Forest Bond wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:14:25PM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > > On 0, Forest Bond <for...@alittletooquiet.net> wrote: > > > * Why all of the Debian-specific utilities in debian/utils? This is > > > just vanity. Please, ship the upstream software, not your own. > > > > > > > I won't insult the maintainer's job that easily. Their goal is to > > offer a better user experience. They do not modify the original > > behavior of the project (mldonkey). Feel free to not use them. > > I was too harsh, you are right. I apologize. > > However, creating non-standard, distribution-specific ways to use the upstream > software does not improve the user experience, in my mind. It makes the user > harder for upstream to support, and so should not be done lightly.
As the primary writer of this utils, I really do not think having so much "vanity". You must understand that the tools provided in debian/utils are used in various maintainer script. They are only useful for writing maintainer script. They are not intended to be used directly by user. Most of this script can be directly replaced by standard mldonkey command. The main difference is that the debian/tools utils provide "offline" command (i.e. without mldonkey running). This is only useful when you are configuring the package: the daemon must be offline but you must manage its configuration file. For example, mldonkey_users allow to add user at package configuration time. You can also add user when the daemon is running, directly into mldonkey (mlnet). Trying to use this tool when the daemon is running is a pretty bad idea (TM). Regards Sylvain Le Gall
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