Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] Michael Gilbert 

> True.  Part of the problem is appropriate terminology.  This is a case
> of what I would call an "undermaintained" package.  Even though the
> maintainer is still around, and may be quite active elsewhere, this
> package has not gotten any attention in 2 years (even though multiple
> upstreams have been released in the meantime).

They've mostly been translation updates, which aren't particularly
important.  Updating them, while nice, is hardly critical.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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