Re: Unmaintained Packages (was: Getting patches into packages, thought and ideas)

2003-08-09 Thread Marc Haber 
On 09 Aug 2003 05:11:39 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow
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ifupdown surely looks bad.

Shouldn't someone else take over the package then?

Greetings
Marc, not feeling fit to take the package, but seriously thinking
about a fork

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Re: Unmaintained Packages (was: Getting patches into packages, thought and ideas)

2003-08-08 Thread Andrew Suffield 
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 12:25:21PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
 On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:52 +0100, Andrew Suffield
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 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 08:50:36PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
  And don't tell me glibc is unmaintained or ppp.
 
 ppp *was* unmaintained, for a long period of time.
 
 When exactly is a package (take ifupdown for example which hasn't seen
 a maintainer upload in a long time) to be considered unmaintained?

Retroactively, when somebody pries it out of the cold, dead grip of
the former maintainer.

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Re: Unmaintained Packages (was: Getting patches into packages, thought and ideas)

2003-08-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow 
Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:52 +0100, Andrew Suffield
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 08:50:36PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
  And don't tell me glibc is unmaintained or ppp.
 
 ppp *was* unmaintained, for a long period of time.
 
 When exactly is a package (take ifupdown for example which hasn't seen
 a maintainer upload in a long time) to be considered unmaintained?

If a package has bugs for some time without the maintainer giving
reasons why they are left open its unmaintained or at least badly
maintained. Having bugs fixed in NMUs is also a sign of an
unmaintained package.

ifupdown surely looks bad.

MfG
Goswin