Re: sysutils orphaned
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 03:56:55PM -0400, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> I just uploaded a version assigned to the Q&A group. I find that my
I would take it, but:
> dislike of outright orphaning packages was finally outweighed by the
> facts that:
>
> 1) I don't use it, ever
>
> 2) It's an aggregate package, which I intensely dislike
>
> 3) The most bug-ridden bits of it are basically pretty-printing for
> cat /proc/*
>
> 4) Every time I try to dispose of a package any other way, the
> volunteer either never uploads a new version (xqf, qstat,
> liveice), or isn't yet a maintainer, with no knowable timeframe
> for becoming a maintainer (liveice, screem)---although this looks
1) I am not a maintainer yet, with no knowable timeframe for becoming a
maintainer.
> like it might be a viable option now that it seems that woldn't
> just be signing on to sponsor packages from now until I die.
>
> Hmm. Didn't know such a small package could stir such strong
> feelings. :-)
>
> I only ever took this package because it was one of the last ones
> needing to be converted to the then-new source packaging format, oh so
> many moons ago, and no one else seemed to have any intention of doing
> it.
>
> So I have orphaned it. Hopefully someone who finds it useful will see
> fit to deal with it. There are two bugs, both reported in the last
> two weeks, against procinfo. There is no upstream update, and since
> one of them is an arch-specific bug, I'd guess that you'll probably
> end up interacting with the author a lot.
2) And I have access only to i386, so if there is no new upstream version,
the package would have to live with the arch-specific bug for a long time.
If you think it would still be worthwhile to start hacking on the package,
I'll take a closer look at it.
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