giskard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 00:59:13 +0100
> Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Well, more importantly, this is archive bloat. Since apparantly the
>> lopster maintainer is not upgrading his package, you intend to just
>> add the new version to the archive, in stead of doing something about
>> the original issue?
>
> for now lopster2 in't usuable. looks fine but..
> i think to adopt and maintain lopster until a usable lopster2 version
> comes out then i will ask for remove it.
>
>> I don't think it's okay even with maintainer permission unless there
>> is a very good reason to have multiple versions of a certain package
>> in the archive, something that is relatively rare.
>
> i agree with you.
How about putting it into experimental then? Nothing stops you from
having lopster 1.x-y in sid and lopster 2.x-y in experimental.
MfG
Goswin
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