On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2012/11/12 <[email protected]> > > What's the rationale behind the removal of albumshaper from the catalog ? > > From another posting[1]: > > """While at it we dropped a whole bunch of packages probably no longer > useful or unmaintained. If any of your active packages is involved we > apologize in advance and would kindly request a rebuild.""" > > So you have been apologized to for it in advance, and it's been > requested that you rebuild albumshaper and upload it.
But in this case albumshaper was updated just a few months ago by Peter F himself so it should be considered actively maintained. Why did someone consider the package to be "not useful" without asking the maintainer first? Or is there a technical reason for it having to be rebuilt just now? That's not clear by the apology. I think it would have been better to publish a list of packages supposed to be deleted from the catalog and let others have an opinion about them instead of just removing them and apologizing in general for it. I from time to time get emails about not maintaining a package any longer so someone either updated my package or it got removed without me getting any info about it. It annoys me. /peter _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
