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Re: ask-2.5.0 - a new package for review
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 10:21:18PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
>Charles Wilson wrote:
>> Max Bowsher wrote:
>>> Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote:
>>>>(a Debian) Python Project http://www.paganini.net/ask/ has bee ported.
>>>>Please review.
>>>>
>>>>http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/ask/ask-2.5.0-1-src.tar.bz2
>>>>http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/ask/ask-2.5.0-1.tar.bz2
>>>
>>>Before you ITP any more packages, you should address the fact that
>>>cygbuild has been vetoed, and therefore, since all your packages use
>>>it, they are blocked until this issue is solved.
>>
>>Not necessarily. But, you realize Max that neither
>>generic-build-script nor mknetrel are available as "packages" either?
>>So IMO it doesn't really matter that cygbuild isn't an official
>>package, as long as it is available somewhere...
>
>I could have misinterpreted cgf's veto. I'm not entirely sure whether
>he was vetoing the package, or the use of yet another build system.
I was vetoing the package for inclusion in cygwin. I was actually
nodding my head when I read your objection to packages being submitted
which use cygbuild, but Chuck is right. Since there is no official
package in the distribution, it would be inconsistent to block a package
because it uses a build system not in the distribution.
So, IMO, there's no reason to block packages which use diverse build
systems as long as the build system itself is available somewhere.
cgf