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Re: [OT] lazy maintainers



On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 04:22:01PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> writes:
> 
> > FWIW I would have continued to NMU AbiWord had gecko not instructed me
> > to stop. It's his own stuborn behavior that has let the package fall
> > out of date. I had begged him on many occasions to take over the
> > package. Now I'm just bitter that my work on the package will go to
> > waste and the package will probably never get updated.
> 
> Doesn't this cry for a technical "solution", e.g. having more than one
> package for one software in Debian?

What? 17 months since the last update! Just hijack it! That is sheer
negilgence of ones packages.


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