A new team member

[Patrick Ben Koetter]

* Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto at connexer.com>:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 07:53:51PM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> > Hi everyone!
> > 
> > Please say welcome to Patrick Koetter (pbk-guest on alioth) who has
> > joined our team. He has expressed interest in improving and extending
> > the Cyrus SASL documentation. He has also written saslfinger [0], a tool
> > to help debug Postfix <-> SASL interactions. We're planning to include
> > saslfinger in Debian some way, either as a separate package, a new
> > tools/debugging package that could include other similar tools, or as a
> > Debian-specific extension to the sasl2-bin package (I think we could
> > start with that).
> > 
> Logically, I like the idea of including saslfinger in the sasl2-bin
> package.  However, in principle I do not like the idea of mixing things
> from different sources in the same package.  Of course, it is just a

Agreed.

> bash script (meaning no disrespect, Patrick, I speak from the
> perspective of release engineering/management) so I am tending to think

Understood.

> that including it in an existing is package is both easier and more
> sensible than creating an entirely new package.

The problem, in my eyes, is granularity and findability. If it's there and I
can't find it it's useless. If I can't find it and I can't get an overview
because the package brings too many diverse things it's not any help either.


p at rick

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