Re: why was um-pppd removed?
(please keep the CC to debian-hurd)
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:45:34PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
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> It was up for adoption for about a year, or maybe more. Neal promised he
> would adopt it, he didn't. There were no NMUs, despite the fact that
> um-pppd didn't build from source. I considered that lack of interest.
that just means it should be orphaned, not that it should be removed from
the archive. A package shouldn't be removed from debian unless we don't
have any expectation to get it fixed.
> I'd also add that until the serial port driver doesn't work in GNU,
> um-pppd is virtually useless, which means it shouldn't be kept in
> Debian, imo.
the serial port drivers does work on GNU, it just has a limit of 36kb/s
--
Robert Millan
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