Re: Where do you get beaver?
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On 05/18/07 09:10, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 08:39:58AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>> 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'?
Seems to me that would be the case...
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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