Stefan van der Eijk wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> https://plf.zarb.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89
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>> ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2005-12-12 15:34 -------
>> Could someone please remove this package?
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> Good idea... I've tried to build the latest version, but I can't get it
> to compile.
drip has been unbuildable for ages, and I also agree it should be
dropped. Its last build is two years old: Mon 03 Nov 2003

But if you look at other old package that also don't build anymore, drip
is not the only case:
http://plf.zarb.org/qa/build.html
http://plf.zarb.org/qa/age.html

Which make me think we have a general problem here...

I'd really like to achieve a sane working flow here, instead of living
with it as we all do in mandriva world. If we can't fix packages, we
should drop it than keeping them broken indefinitly. Sofar, each package
has a maintainer, who should either assume responsability for it, or
drop maintainership for it.

We have tools for reporting problems (bugzilla and rpmcheck), we have
tools for exchanging/dropping maintainership (bugzilla packager status),
we have editable packaging documentation. We don't have sofar automated
package deletion, nor even maintainer-accessible package deletion, but
plf admins are more often requested to delete wrong upload than outdated
packages, which make me think we have a social problem (how should we
deal with the problem) rather than a technical one.

So, what should we do there ?

-- 
If the effort that went in research on the female bosom had gone into
our space program, we would now be running hot-dog stands on the moon
                -- Murphy's Laws on Sex n°30
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