Re: Noteedit, Finale, and testing
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 03:32:15PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de> [2004-08-27 16:21]:
> > I'm for keeping the package, especially in sarge. Finally, stable
> > releases are generally not changed (except for security, legal or
> > other important fixes) during their lifetime, so it doesn't matter
> > much if the package is maintained actively upstream.
>
> I would agree if this package had been part of woody. However, it
> wasn't, and so we'd release this package new with sarge and people
> might start using it even though it's basically unsupported both by
> upstream and in Debian. This is not ideal, especially since there are
> apparently other alternatives they could use.
Everything in stable is basically unsupported anyway since it's nearly
impossible to get updates into stable.
Given the apparent abandonment was very recent and the package more or
less works, I don't see why it should be kept out of a stable release.
It's still very possible someone will take over upstream development.
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