Re: only release packages that have maintainers?

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Martin Michlmayr wrote:

> * Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu> [20010220 17:04]:
> > What you need to realize (and probably do) is that you have finite
> > time and that if after a while you no longer have time to maintain the
> ...
> > are willing to remove the packages if you fail to find someone who can
> > take care of them, then I think you're providing a useful service to
> > the community.
>
> This is what I sent to Adrian recently; I'm reposting it here since I
> think some kind of Release Notes would be nice:
>
> If you do something worthwhile then write good Release Notes saying
> which packages have been removed and listing better replacements if
> there are any (e.g. upsd should be removed, replacement is nut and
> possibly others).  That would be our users a better service that
> keeping packages around which are e.g. not even maintained upstream
> anymore.

And my personal opinion is that I prefer to keep a package if there's not
a _good_ reason why it should get removed (and yes - it happens that I
see a good reason why a package should get removed).

cu
Adrian

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