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Re: Outdated packages in unstable: what to do?



On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 06:45:45PM +0100, dobler wrote:
> I was wondering why there are some small packages that are not upgraded even 
> when a new release that fixes some bugs and doesn't bring any new 
> incompatibilities is out?
> 
> I was thinking of xqf, qstat or mozilla for instance

Well, some packages (e.g. egon) are orphaned.  There's no one
updating them at all.  Others may simply have less energetic
maintainers -- Debian is a volunteer effort, after all.
-- 
Carl Fink		carlf@dm.net



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