On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 08:39:58AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/18/07 08:26, Deboo ^ wrote: > > On 5/18/07, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote: > >> Following the links on that page, you see that bug #273316 was > >> the cause. Apparently they decided to drop it because it is > >> (or was, 2 years ago) dead upstream. > >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=273316 > > > > It's still a nice program and small in size. What is the policy > > used to drop a package? > > Maintenance issues, licensing issues and orphans that don't get > adopted are the big three I can think of now. > > In this case, they don't want to take on the extra responsibility of > maintaining a package with a dead upstream. From the link I provided: > I personally believe, that software which has no upstream > maintainership should not be in debian, because it will > become a maintainance nightmare for the maintainer. > Well, if someone want to become 'upstream'... won't that fix the problem of 'dead upstream'? -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______|
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