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Re: Vendoring an unmaintained library?



On 2024-07-03 Alexandre Rossi <niol@zincube.net> wrote:
[...]
> #1073005 asks for the vendoring back of an unvendored library, arguing
> that this particular library is unmaintained upstream, implying that the
> vendored fork is better maintained.

> My view on this is that if the vendored fork is better maintained, the
> vendored fork should become the upstream of the Debian package.
[...]

FWIW both FreeBSD and Gentoo have switched to the suggested fork (last
commit 2020), while the original source on sf is quite dead (last change
2013).

cu Andreas
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