2007/11/15, Eric Belanger <belanger@astro.umontreal.ca>:
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Roman Kyrylych wrote:
font-bh-ttf should we keep it? I can maintain it in Community, you can move it right there (if there are no objections). Instead, I'd like to bring ttf-freefont and ttf-liberation to Extra, which are much more important.
Why moving it (and the other packages you propose to adopt) to community? Why not adopting them and maintaining them in extra? To me it seems like unecessary work, unless you have a personal preference in maintaining suff in community. I don't see any problem in keeping most of these packages in extra IF they have a maintainer. The 'if' is the key part here. Some of the packages that were/will be removed are more worthy to remain in extra than some stupid package like xsnow but the fact of the matter is that they don't have a maintainer while xsnow has one. Unless someone think of them being worthy enough to say: "Wait a minute! This package should stay in extra. We must find a maintainer for it.", much like what has happened with bind and exim, they 'll go in unsupported.
Yeah, that's kind of my preference to maintain not so popular/important packages in Community. That's the subject of "Extra/Community line & Mantle/Crust" thread. Plus, I used to maintain all packages in Community, because I was doing just bugtracker work with no package maintaining in Extra in the past. That doesn't mean I don't want to move some good Community packages to Extra though. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)