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Re: Unmaintained Packages (was: Getting patches into packages, thought and ideas)



On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 12:25:21PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:52 +0100, Andrew Suffield
> <asuffield@debian.org> wrote:
> >On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 08:50:36PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >> And don't tell me glibc is unmaintained or ppp.
> >
> >ppp *was* unmaintained, for a long period of time.
> 
> When exactly is a package (take ifupdown for example which hasn't seen
> a maintainer upload in a long time) to be considered unmaintained?

Retroactively, when somebody pries it out of the cold, dead grip of
the former maintainer.

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