Re: progsreiserfs - time to remove it from debian ?

[José Luis Tallón <jltallon@adv-solutions.net>]

Sune Vuorela wrote:
> Hi!
>
> When I have been looking over the list of RC bugs, I have often noticed 
> the "#244169: progsreiserfs: F*cked my root partition" RC bug against 
> progsreiserfs, a package you maintain.
>   
So to speak. I keep it especially so that nobody else will try to
package it.
> It does not look like there have been much work on this issue. I wonder if it 
> is about time to ask for removal of that package from debian.
>   
Yes, indeed... inmediately after Etch is released.
> The bug sounds rather ugly - and it has also now failed to build from source 
> for almost a year.
>   
It has been abandoned upstream quite a while ago.
See before for the reason I keep it.
> I think it is time to remove it before more people get their data eaten.
>   
It can't do no harm as it is now, since *nothing* actually uses it.
> If you come with a small ack: "Please remove", I can take care of making the 
> ftp masters aware of this.
>   
What would be the difference w.r.t my requesting that myself?

Have I somehow been banned from doing anything in Debian by myself
without knowing?


    J.L.