On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 09:38:24AM +0100, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > Nice bait.... I'll bite, but if you want to read it you'll have to > subscribe... It's not fair to throw the rock and hide the hand > > 1) learn how to properly format a mail message (i.e. fold at 75th > column) > > 2) learn how to package a deb and adopt whichever package you think > you're better at maintaining than the original maintainer > > 3) if the package is dead upstream, fork it and maintain it > yourself. Most free software licences allow it.
While it is a bit of a bait, I agree with his assessment. And I believe his point is that debian needs a better way to handle packages that aren't properly maintained, rather than just letting them clutter up the archives. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus