-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 01/02/13 06:20 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 01/02/2013 12:11, Rich Freeman wrote: >> I do think it is a loss for Gentoo if we start removing packages >> simply because they don't change (which is all a dead upstream >> means - it isn't always a bad thing). > > The problem is that a package that doesn't change _will_ bitrot. > Full stop. > > Trying to pretend that the problem does not exist, that an > unmaintained package is just as fine as a maintained one is stupid > and shortsighted, and explains why I have 1600 bugs open... >
True -- but then, the reason for that package's removal is one or many of those bugs, not because upstream is dead and the package is old and might at some point in the future have bugs due to bitrot. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlELwj4ACgkQ2ugaI38ACPCa1QEAggm0vXETySkPrLJD3Lquvc4Q Kkt7ft0dBamMGH86bE4BAL1S1X7T9dZZS88on2GhAZKy81iY8G8VWch8GUXw3Q5k =6TbE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
