On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010220 17:04]: > > What you need to realize (and probably do) is that you have finite > > time and that if after a while you no longer have time to maintain the > ... > > are willing to remove the packages if you fail to find someone who can > > take care of them, then I think you're providing a useful service to > > the community. > > This is what I sent to Adrian recently; I'm reposting it here since I > think some kind of Release Notes would be nice: > > If you do something worthwhile then write good Release Notes saying > which packages have been removed and listing better replacements if > there are any (e.g. upsd should be removed, replacement is nut and > possibly others). That would be our users a better service that > keeping packages around which are e.g. not even maintained upstream > anymore.
And my personal opinion is that I prefer to keep a package if there's not a _good_ reason why it should get removed (and yes - it happens that I see a good reason why a package should get removed). cu Adrian -- Nicht weil die Dinge schwierig sind wagen wir sie nicht, sondern weil wir sie nicht wagen sind sie schwierig.
