Matthew Palmer <mjp16@ieee.uow.edu.au> writes: > On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, nil wrote: > >> >From an outsider's point of view Debian looks like the most >> irresponsible distro with no contact whatsoever with original >> package authors. [...] > I have a question for you, though: why is it, do you think, that someone > would have thought that playmidi was "quite dead" upstream? I have no idea > what the answer is, it's really between you and the person who made the > claim, but are there e-mail addresses associated with playmidi which are no > longer read? Is the current location of development information clearly > available on search engines and in package source? Are there old locations > referenced in source tarballs which are dead? This presumption of death > must have come from somewhere... I made the claim based upon the fact that playmidi doesn't appear to have had a release since 1998. The most recent timestamp on the files in the "latest" release from http://playmidi.openprojects.net is September 30, 1998. 4.5 years between releases for a tiny utility sounds dead to me. I guess the author would rather spend his time flaming people than actually writing code... -- I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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