Re: Inactive maintainers
On 2004-06-14 Chris Hagar <hagar@myrealbox.com> wrote:
> The following maintainers are inactive, or at least aren't
> maintaining their packages properly. I noticed because the version
> of python2.3-mysqldb (Hoffleit) is very old and uses the library for
> the old (3.x) release of mysql, which I think is probably and
> unacceptable situation for release;
[...]
Not really. The old mysql-library libmysqlclient10 is still used a
lot in Debian simply because libmysqlclient12 is licensed under GPL
instead LGPL, which makes it impossible to use in projects with GPL
incomptabible licenses.
cu andreas
--
"See, I told you they'd listen to Reason," [SPOILER] Svfurlr fnlf,
fuhggvat qbja gur juveyvat tha.
Neal Stephenson in "Snow Crash"
Reply to: