On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 07:41:04PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 12:14:33 -0300, altoid wrote in message
> <65EDCE59.4094.352713@???>:
>
> > Hello:
> >
> > On 5 Mar 2024 at 21:37, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> >
> > > ..it's useful _if_ ...
> > Hmm ...
> > No. 8^/
> >
> > My apologies if I seem blunt, but in my (limited/narrow) Devuan-esque
> > point of view, Debian's "how-can-I-help" package has absolutely
> > *nothing* to do in a Devuan repository.
>
> ..what it _does_ tell us, is Debian, which _is_ our upstream and
> which we lean waaay too heavily on as our _only_ upstream, is in
> trouble, with package maintainers leaving.
> Which again means trouble for us here at Devuan.

Maybe slightly less trouble if they were to migrate to us instead
of giving up entirely.

>
> > It belongs in the banned packages list.
> > ie: so it can help by *not* being available in the Devuan
> > repositories.
> >
> > > ... might find it depressing...
> > Indeed ...
> >
> > I found it quite depressing to see that it actually *is* in the
> > Devuan repositories.
>
> ..maybe populate it with alien-converted Slackware packages?
>
> --
> ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
> ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
> Scenarios always come in sets of three:
> best case, worst case, and just in case.
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