On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 07:59:07PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 09:04:05AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > Unmaintained, defunct or nasty software gets removed eventually. > > Lately I am a bit fed up with software that does not build on hydra (be it > on mips or even mainstream architectures), with the last release dating > sometimes a decade back and that nobody bothers to fix (without an active > upstream, that is not a very rewarding activity anyway). Some of these > might not even currently have users, if the initial submitter has walked > away. So I think we should not hesitate to remove software a bit more > aggressively in the future.
I think this agrees with my statement ;). Aggressive removing of broken software is a pretty good idea. > Given the facts that Mark researched (two lonely commits a year ago, not > even a single release) xscreenshot seems to fall into the "unmaintained" > category, and I am not exactly enthusiastic about adding it. It not being > in Debian, while not the only criterion, is another hint. Yeah. But it is up to the submitter, indeed. If he maintains it, who are we to argue? Pj. --
