Re: [SM-DEVEL] Introducing me & Debian packaging

[Jan H. R. <in...@jh...>]

Just a few points...

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 01:56:47PM -0700, Paul Lesniewski wrote:
> Sounds great.  Thanks.  However, you'll want to be careful about
> plugins whose authors abandon them, of course, and there are a lot of
> those sometimes that gradually become incompatible with SM's newest
> version.

Well, that's one of the reasons why Debian package maintainers should
stay in contact to the software authors. I'll try to fetch such
information from this list and the plugins list to which I'm now
subscribed as well. I you recognize any problem like that and remember
me feel free to contact me all the time. :)

> No worries.  I think I heard once that a couple of my plugins made
> their way into some of the RedHat/Fedora stuff, but you're the first
> person who's ever actually contacted me in any way.  I'm just glad
> that they are useful.

They are, thanks!

> I thought I'd heard that this is currently buggy and broken in the
> most up-to-date SM code.

I'll have a look at it. Brian told me that there are considerations of
including the GPG plugin into SM 1.5.x. If that is going to happen I
have to decide if there is still a need to package it separately.

> >  I thought I could take html_mail as well next time but beyond that I
> 
> That plugin "works" I think, but is in sore need of a face lift.

Okay, then I'll leave that at the moment.

> >  don't know which plugins are worth to get into Debian at all.
> [...]
> 
> To me, that really depends on the target system and the desired level
> of customization, etc.

Debian is designed to fit in every situation... ;-)

I'm going to have a look at your suggestions next time. Thanks!

Cheers,
Hauke