On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 04:15:18 -0400, Dale wrote: > > [1 <text/plain; UTF-8 (8bit)>] > John Covici wrote: > > > > I am seeing a lot more unmaintained packages -- at least in the ones I > > have -- than there used to be and bugs going unanswered probably > > because of that. Not sure what to do about it, I don't have time to > > get into doing this much, just keeping up with world updates is quite > > time consuming all by itself. > > > > > That may be but the packages that are most used are likely maintained > and well maintained at that. There are some old packages that haven't > been updated in years, upstream is dead or no one uses them much anymore > that are slowly being removed. If one can't install them, no real point > in them being in the tree. I might add, the switch from the much older > pythons are really forcing a house cleaning. But, some packages are > just out of date and something new has taken their place. Nothing new > there. I'm sure this happens with every distro out there, even the paid > ones. > > I follow -dev and have recently had to uninstall a package and install > something else that is newer and more up to date. I saw a message about > that old package that seemed to stop working for me a good while ago. > What I had still lurking about would sometimes crash and I didn't trust > it. I used to use that as a GUI to manage LVM. I use LVM a lot here. > In that message was them removing the old package and recommending a > replacement I never heard of. I installed it and it may actually be > better than the old software I used to use. While the old package may > be gone, the new one seems to be more up to date, stable and appears to > have a better design. Different for sure, I'll have to learn how the > GUI does its thing but could be better in the end. Since LVM has been > updated a good bit in the past year or so, that old software either > needed a lot of work or just use the newer software. > > There are a lot of packages that are just not used by enough people to > maintain them anymore. Some are being replaced with more up to date > packages. There are lots of reasons for that. If a package you use is > being removed, search -dev and look to see if there is a replacement > mentioned in the last rites message. If it was removed, they almost > always include a replacement if there is one. Sometimes another package > absorbs what the old package used to do. While at times -dev can get > quite busy, I'd be lost without it. Things are mentioned there about > upcoming changes that I don't see mentioned anywhere else. That > includes this list as well. It's a great way to keep somewhat up to > date on what's going on. One doesn't have to read every post either. > After a while, you can tell by the subject line if that thread will be > anything you would be interested in. Last rites, things about upgrades > and such get my attention. I generally know when something big is going > to happen weeks or even months before it hits the tree. > > If you want to share what packages you are missing out on, I'd be glad > to search my -dev archives and see if I can find something that may help.
Well, teamviewer is the worst -- teamviewer 15 won't emerge because it will overwrite files belonging to the previous version (!da). Someone even slotted the thing, but still no joy. I filed a bug, but no response. Also, although I don't think there is a new version, but sendmail seens to be unmaintained. Also, ant-core -- there is a bug against that, but no fix as yet. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una cov...@ccs.covici.com