Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 13, 2012
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Thibaut Paumard writes:
> Le 13/07/12 11:21, Juhana Sadeharju a écrit :
>> Is there a list of software which should be used instead of some
>> old software? That is, should orphaned packages stay orphaned for a
>> good reason.
>>
>> Also, are people wasting time in packaging oldies which should be
>> orphaned?
>>
>> However, I checked that openscenegraph (OSG). Seems like it is not
>> used much, but as scenegraph fan myself, I don't know better
>> alternative if I need one.
>>
>> Juhana
>>
>>
>
> If you like OSG and it's orphaned, by all means adopt it. If it had
> been deemed completely useless and broken by the previous maintainer,
> he would have asked for its removal rather than orphaning it.
Hi, this is just a heads up to say that OSG is not orphaned nor
abandoned — quite the opposite, if you watch upstream's and Debian QA
pages [1], [2]. It's only listed on wnpp because there is a request for
help.
Footnotes:
[1] http://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg
[2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/openscenegraph.html
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Alberto
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