On Saturday 11 October 2008 20:53:37 Erik Hahn wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 01:24:03PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I'm looking into ivman and pmount for automounting amongst other things > > while using e17. > > > > ivman was last updated Feb 2007 according to the official sourceforge > > page, and the maintainer is listed as "????". 18 months is a long time, > > so this package looks like it's unmaintained. > > Does software rot when it's unmaintained or why is that a problem? > > The only problem I can see are unfixed bugs but these exist in > maintained packages as well.
ivman is closely tied in with hal and dbus, both of which have a history of hitting users with incompatibilities. I'd rather not deal with those issues for this usage, and reserve my willingness to bug-hunt for other areas -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
