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Re: Bug#141847: O: dupload -- Utility to upload Debian packages.



On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 03:14:34PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote:
> > An excellent point. We *should* be more aggressive about dumping things
> > no one wants to maintain. So why did you attack someone who raised a
> > question about one particular package? The question was answered, move
> 
>   You got me wrong. I talked about packages noone uses, not about
>   packages noone wants to maintain, this is quite different.
>   On the one side, there are packages that noone maintains and 
>   that noone cares about their removal. On the other side, there
>   are unmaintained packages that have a lot of users. I'm not
>   in favour of removing the latter. 

But arguably one is not far from the other, no?

If none of our ... how many developers have we got now?  If one of them
has any interest in the package, it could be expected that very few people
actually use the package.  A few exceptions exist, but I suspect not many.

-- 
Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@bluecherry.net>                This thing is an AI
 
* joeyh_ wonders if linux is supposed to lock up when you ask 100
  processes to cat the entire cd drive

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