On 10/23/2011 09:10 PM, Jonathan Conder wrote:
On 24 October 2011 01:42, Dieter Plaetinck<[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 02:10:48 +1300
Jonathan Conder<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi TUs,
In a few days I will be orphaning my package mediatomb, and will
delete it too unless anyone is interested in maintaining it. It has
been unmaintained upstream for over a year, and currently I don't
have enough time to deal with the issues that keep cropping up
because of this. At the moment it isn't even installed on my main
computer. Thought I'd just let people know first, in case anyone else
is interested in maintaining it, and to give my reasons for dropping
it.
Thanks,
Jonathan
why would you delete the package?
I still use MT. orphan as you want, but it's not because upstream is inactive
that you should remove the package IMHO.
I was under the impression that it didn't currently work, but on
closer inspection it looks like one of the bugs was invalid. Maybe it
should stay then, but unless someone is willing to maintain it I think
we should encourage new users to look for an alternative (by removing
it from the repos).
Dieter
I'm just a noob to the lists, but I don't understand why non-maintained
mediatomb equates to a package that is no longer relevant to anyone.
Unless it is severely broken, I would think that many would appreciate
it continuing on in the repos. At worst, don't delete it, but relegate
it to AUR instead. I use mediatomb in my home and would hate to see a
loss of the package. In aur, most are aware that, "You get what you get
and you don't throw a fit".
