On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:59:51PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 04:44:46PM +0200, Admar Schoonen wrote: > > I think it can be useful for those who want to create their own flavour of > > Debian or want to (partially) mirror Debian. > > dpkg-scanpackages/apt-ftparchive > > doesn't work very well for packages which are located in the pool, and the > > only > > way to generate correct packagelists is to put all information from all > > packages > > in a database and query that database when packagelists are generated; thus > > people who want to partially mirror or create their own Debian-flavour > > should > > create their own Debian database from information gathered from packagelists > > which are downloaded by apt. > > Those people are going to want all of dak (katie) anyway, which > contains madison. It's not packaged either, but is available from > anonymous cvs at cvs.debian.org. > > However, the value of a package that would be used by about half a > dozen people in total is probably not all that high.
I think that number might be higher. I'm thinking of companies building their own Debian-based distribution, companies having their own (small) Debian mirror, people (like me) who have a small Debian mirror at their laptop and update it at work/school to upgrade the machines at home, people creating Live-cd's based on Debian etc. For those people, such a package could be of pretty high value. (And besides that, I think there are already rather 'low-value' packages in Debian, eg, the very nice but rather useless kodo; YMMV though.) Admar Schoonen
