Outdated packaging in packaging/Debian

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):
>   
>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 05:29:27AM -0500, Andrew Kroeger wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Please do not take this the wrong way, but Samba is far too dynamic to  
>>> allow downstream sources to be the ultimate authority WRT packaging.
>>>       
>> Debian and Ubuntu are far too dynamic to allow upstream sources to be the
>> ultimate authority WRT packaging. :)  Effectively, all that packaging is is
>>     
>
> I think that Andrew was not objecting to this, but more to the removal
> of *other* distros packaging (RPM-based stuff).
>   
He was also specifically objecting to my original proposal removing the
Debian packaging.

Andrew Kroeger <andrew at id10ts.net> wrote:
>> Would anybody object to removing the contents of this directory and
>> instead putting in a README file that points to the svn.debian.org and
>> the SerNet Debian packages? 
> Yes - see below. 

Cheers,

Jelmer