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Re: gnome 1.x removal



"cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <cobaco@skolelinux.no> writes:
> "As long as there's interest the software will stay alive" is one of the 
> main tenets of Free Software. Consequently, IMHO, as long as there's people 
> willing to maintain it, it shouldn't be removed regardless of how old it 
> is. 

GNOME 1.x is neither maintained in Debian nor upstream. Noone has
stepped forward to keep it alive. The main reason that it's still in
Debian is that we don't clean up often enough.

Marc
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