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Bruce Perens's override file entries



In the override file on ftp.debian.org, which specifies priorities,
sections and optionally maintainers for packages, there are the
following entries naming Bruce:

bash            required        base    Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
chfn            required        base    Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
fileutils       required        base    Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
findutils       required        base    Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
gawk            required        base    Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
grep            required        base    Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
gzip            required        base    Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
hostname        required        base    Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
kbd             required        base    Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
modules         required        base    Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
procps          required        base    Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
sed             required        base    Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
shellutils      required        base    Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
textutils       required        base    Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
timezone        required        base    Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>
tput            required        base    Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>

Is Bruce still maintaining all these packages ?  If not the file
should be edited, probably just to remove the maintainer specification
so that the Maintainer field of the package in the development tree
takes precedence - mail Ian Murdock or myself.

Ian.


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