Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Ben Finney Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: pycharm package in debian Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2017 10:50:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Sun Oct 1 08:49:26 2017 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.106 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, FOURLA=0.1, GMAIL=1, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.001, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RDNS_NONE=0.793] autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate:hard: -6.1 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Lines: 27 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-Public-Key-ID: 0xAC128405 X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 517C F14B B2F3 98B0 CB35 4855 B8B2 4C06 AC12 8405 X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-pubkey.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney Cancel-Lock: sha1:+WkSfMmB9zEV8O+lWJ3wSbrCOEs= X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/15274 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/85infz45j5.fsf@benfinney.id.au Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2017 19:49:02 +1100 X-Original-Message-ID: <85infz45j5.fsf@benfinney.id.au> X-Original-References: <5804be2d-67fa-b7d3-1332-8b362f892b5e@laposte.net> <69cec3b4-0c04-9c9b-961b-a0a65b2d3cb5@gmail.com> <17971bbc-8896-0b60-2d7a-169929a5cb35@gmail.com> X-Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:9892 Ghislain Vaillant writes: > Don't get me wrong, I understand the rationales from a DFSG > perspective. I am just questioning whether users of this particular > piece of software would particularly care. The same could be asked of many user-facing packages in Debian. Your question, though, makes an incorrect assumption: that “users of this particular piece of software” is a group whose membership is unaffected by having the package in Debian. On the contrary. Take me as a counter-example. I am not a user of this particular piece of software, because I have little interest in judging for myself the hundreds of user-facing applications on my system. If it were in Debian I can then take all the assurance that brings about freedom and maintenance, and I may indeed consider using this particular piece of software where otherwise I would not. So, one important reason to package a work in Debian is to *increase* the set of people who can easily install and use it. -- \ “Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “Uh, I think so | `\ Brain, but this time, you wear the tutu.” —_Pinky and The Brain_ | _o__) | Ben Finney