Op donderdag 08 december 2011 13:13:28 schreef Samuel Verschelde: [...] > > 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).
imho we could easily drop cpuinfo, i mean, unless it's used as a dependency in something greater, it seems a bit useless to me...
