-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/18/07 09:10, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 08:39:58AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 05/18/07 08:26, Deboo ^ wrote: >>> On 5/18/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Following the links on that page, you see that bug #273316 was >>>> the cause. Apparently they decided to drop it because it is >>>> (or was, 2 years ago) dead upstream. >>>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=273316 >>> It's still a nice program and small in size. What is the policy >>> used to drop a package? >> Maintenance issues, licensing issues and orphans that don't get >> adopted are the big three I can think of now. >> >> In this case, they don't want to take on the extra responsibility of >> maintaining a package with a dead upstream. From the link I provided: >> I personally believe, that software which has no upstream >> maintainership should not be in debian, because it will >> become a maintainance nightmare for the maintainer. >> > Well, if someone want to become 'upstream'... won't that fix the problem > of 'dead upstream'?
Seems to me that would be the case... - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGTbWmS9HxQb37XmcRAjTAAKDukfsetTjL8cnbc4OHM4EX7dmvSgCdGxN/ KTS2pGpZrbH1xF3I1JEFq+M= =yQSq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
