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Re: how many users is too few



On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:50:41PM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I've got a package (gtkgo) that has been discontinued upstream.  So far I've 
> been ignoring this and continuing to apply fixes, etc. But I'm beginning to 
> wonder if I should ITA it since maintained packages are starting to 
> incorporate its functionality.
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> I had a look on popularity contest and that said it had 7 recent users.  Does 
> that sound like enough to justify its continued presence? I know it is said a 

popularity contest just says about people who have popularity contest
installed. I have a package or two that has also similar low number
in popularity contest (7, too) but I _personally_ know about 15 people
using it.

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