Really, really ancient standards versions
OK, so I looked at Lintian and some of the packages with
ancient-standards-version have *really* ancient standards versions --
2.something.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of these are generally pretty poorly maintained
packages. (Some are in pretty good shape, though.) You'll also note that
the same names come up repeatedly.
What do y'all advise? Wishlist bugs?
Also, it looks like Matthias Kabel and Hanno Wagner may be MIA. The others
appear to exist, although I kind of wish Jim Lynch didn't, given his record.
:-P
Here's the list:
animals: Jim Lynch, who has been a terrible maintainer w/r/t this package.
cruft: Anthony Towns, who isn't maintaining this package really
dhcp: Eloy A. Paris -- This one at any rate works OK
emacsen-common: Rob Browning -- this one at any rate works -- sort of;
it was last uploaded in 2002 and has six important bugs. He's busy,
what with emacs21 and guile-1.6.
epic: QA group maintained
floppybackup: Matthew Vernon. Standards version 2.1.2.2.
Last maintainer upload in the year 2000.
ipxripd: Eloy A. Paris
ld.so: David Engel. Well, it's a libc5 compat package anyway.
lockfile-progs: Rob Browning -- last uploaded 2001
logout-button: Jim Lynch
ncpfs: Eloy A. Paris
netselect: Avery Pennarun (his only package) -- orphaned & being adopted
pilot-template: John Goerzen (surprise!)
postit: Matthias Kabel -- last maintainer upload in the year 2000
qps: Hanno Wagner -- last maintainer upload in 2001
sauce: Ian Jackson (surprise!)
sgrep: Orphaned
translate: Matthias Kabel -- last upload 2001
urlredir: Chris Leishman -- last upload 2001
xlispstat: Douglas Bates
xtranslate: Matthias Kabel -- last maintainer upload 2000
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