W dniu 08.12.2011 13:13, Samuel Verschelde pisze:
Before we start to do that, do you remember about these words:
Currently the data about ownership of packages is tracked in
http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/maintdb.txt and umaintined packages are
listed in http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/unmaintained.txt. This will
be better integrated and managed at a later point, and we will have a
grace period for unmaintained packages. After the grace period, packages
without a maintainer will be reviewed and any packages without a
maintainer will be nominated for deletion.
source https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packaging_guidelines
I look into many really abandoned packages, without any interest among
the packagers, and for some of them it's even quite hard to find any
on-line resource.. For example cpuinfo, it's a /proc/* parser for CPU
related data. It's 2-3 years old (so what about the new hardware?!),
even the author of the software isn't responding to e-mail to just point
a working URL for his software.
This example is not really about the package having no maintainer, but rather
for it being dead upstream, which often leads to removal of the distribution
unless a packager becomes the de-facto upstream and has time, willingness and
knowledge to patch it when needed (works also if it's being maintained in
other distributions).
Samuel
But what's up with the time after the grace period?
