Op donderdag 05-04-2007 om 14:55 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef manu: > amedee wrote: > > I can't help feeling guilty. Because I reported a bug in kdar, I > > contributed in the _removal_ of a very nice piece of software that was > > once the work of one or more passionate developers. Sometimes I wish I > > hadn't added my comments to the bug report and just shut up my big > > mouth... :-( > > The reality is that KDar is unmaintained. That is the real problem. If > you could do something to fix it, great! Otherwise, let it broken and > uninstallable was of no help to anyone and I think it would be even more > annoying (why ship a package that is broken and unmaintained?). > > Someone said that KDar could be kept around for a while as long as > someone volunteered to package and maintain libdar3c2a. First, that > person is nowhere to be seen. Second, upstream DAR is not maintaining > that library anymore, so any security issues would need to be tracked > and fixed by the packager. > > I am sure Ubuntu would love to support as much software as possible but > their time/resources are limited, so it is better to focus on software > that is maintained upstream or that has a very dedicated packager > behind. I was myself a heavy user of KDar. Unfortunately, I don't have > the money to convince the developer of KDar to release a new version and > I don't have the available time to try to do it myself. If you really > love KDar and you think that there are more users like you, then build a > community around it and try to boost its development (or a least make it > build with a recent version of DAR). As long as there are people > *really* interested, nothing can stop them from do it. That is the > beauty of free software.
I know. And if I had the time... Perhaps if every day had 28 hours... -- Amedee Van Gasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- please remove kdar (source and binary) from the archive. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94274 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Team, which is a bug contact for kdar in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
