Processed: reassign 328645 to gjdoc
Michael Koch
konqueror at gmx.de
Sat Sep 17 06:50:01 UTC 2005
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 10:20:14PM +0300, Lior Kaplan wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response.
>
> I think you look more at the archive side, than the user side. Why does
> a user have to download and install the package he might not ever use
> (unless he builds Debian packages).
>
> I ran a search on the Debian archive, to find small ( < 20 KB) packages
> and found 6,018 of them (java-gcj-compat sounds familiar?). Please don't
> give me package size as a reason to close my bug. Since packages is
> about functionality and not about size.
I spoke with ftp-master about the issue and he said to me he would never
allow it to enter the archive.
java-gcj-compat package is a bit different case. You cannot compare both.
Cheers,
Michael
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