Re: sipp: Can this package be removed?
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 02:42:33PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
> > > I agree on this one: there's no reasen to remove a package unless it has
> > > been proven that it doesn't work. You can never be sure that noone uses
> > > the package, even if you don't get bugreports.
> >
> > I don't agree. Every package causes some overhead in our system,
> > not just technically but in terms of time and effort from people
> > who look after the whole distribution in some way. Unmaintained
> > packages tend to take more of that time and effort than others.
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> FWIW I also think unmaintained packages have no place in Debian, whether
> they have users or not. If the package needs to exist _somewhere_, there's
> plenty of places on the Internet where people can put stuff. Having it in
> Debian requires effort, and we should all be careful with how we make
> volunteers wast^Wspend their time.
OK, I'm convinced. You can pretend I never wrote that mail ;-)
wouter dot verhelst at advalvas in belgium
Real men don't take backups.
They put their source on a public FTP-server and let the world mirror it.
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