clone 678853 -1 severity -1 normal reassign -1 ftp.debian.org retitle -1 RM: maildir-bulletin -- RC buggy; dead upstream; maintainer agrees thanks
Hi Russel, On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 10:41:11PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sat, 25 Aug 2012, Ivo De Decker <ivo.dedec...@ugent.be> wrote: > > Is anybody still interested in maintaining this package in debian? Perhaps > > it makes more sense to remove it. > > > > - it has very few users (popcon says 16) > > - it is RC buggy (writes in /home) > > - the last upload was in 2008 > > - the maintainer put it up for adoption (http://bugs.debian.org/678926) > > - upstream is dead (the maintainer of the debian package is also upstream, > > and doesn't use it anymore, also http://bugs.debian.org/678926) > > > > Russel, what do you think? > > Sounds reasonable to me. > > Going forward it's probably best that anyone who needs such things considers > rewriting it. The environment today is a lot different than it was when I > wrote that program. > > Probably the best thing to do for someone who needs that sort of thing is to > have a program which takes a message from stdin or a file and writes it to > the > mail store and have it based around the idea of a mail store owned by one > user > not a user account per mailbox. Thanks for your reply. I'm reassigning a clone of this bug to ftp to request the removal. Cheers, Ivo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
