[Bug 666763] Review Request: ax_emergency_listen - monitors APRS emergency packets

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--- Comment #18 from Guido Trentalancia <guido at trentalancia.com> 2011-01-05 17:18:50 EST ---
(In reply to comment #17)
> (In reply to comment #16)
> > So I really expect someone to push this package, as it
> > is now beginning to take more time for packaging and other collateral stuff
> > than it took to develop the utility itself !
> 
> Sorry, Guido, but it doesn't work this way. Preparing clean packages is as
> important as developing working program code.

Of course, I understand this. But consider the point of someone who developed
the utility for free, has done already most of the packaging, has done an
informal review on another package, has submitted a bug report and a relative
patch to fix it. Everything for free.

And in the end, the utility can be just fetched from the Internet as it is (tar
archive, GNU packaging), built and installed on the fly on any recent
distribution...

Also, the latest release (1.3.2-6) looks fine to me. It adheres to Packaging
Guidelines, it builds and installs fine on Fedora.

> Thus, it can take some time to get a package approved.

If it is just a matter of waiting, then that's fine to me.

> Joining the packager group requires that you're willing to invest time in
> preparing and maintaining packages and that you have an understanding of the
> packaging guidelines. The latter is usually shown by doing some informal
> reviews of other packager's submissions.

I have no interest at the moment for joining the packager or maintainer group
other than what relates this package. For example, I am already doing upstream
testing of most Linux stuff.

> BTW, if you don't have the time and/or don't want to maintain this package
> yourself, you can also add your utility to the package wishlist
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList) and wait for some
> other packager to pick it.

If this is the only solution, then I could do that. But what's wrong with the
latest release ? What prevents it from being pushed in ? If there is something
else that I can do in a reasonably short time, I will do. Otherwise if it's too
complicated, then we'd better leave it to the WishList or let somebody pick
this request and follow up...

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