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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Markus Hoenicka" <Markus DOT Hoenicka AT uth DOT tmc DOT edu>,
   "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" <janneke AT gnu DOT org>
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Subject: Re: tetex-beta nitpicking [WAS: Re: no more package moratorium?]
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 10:07:32 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" <janneke AT gnu DOT org>


> Having a broken package that doesn't get fixed by it's maintainer is
> arguably worse than having none at all.  Maybe Cygwin should introduce
> something like Debian's Non-maintainer uploads to address this
problem?

NMU's require a consistent and self documenting package management
system - which we do not have today. Once we have that, then I've no
problem with this concept.

Rob


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