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RE: BUG: cygwin implementation of Debian package tools
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:09:34 -0400
- Subject: RE: BUG: cygwin implementation of Debian package tools
At Friday, October 29, 2004 1:28 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Since Robert Collins is no longer actively involved with the Cygwin
> community, this package is now unmaintained.
>
> If no one wants to claim it within the next week or so, I'll probably
> remove it from the distribution.
>
> cgf
Out of curiosity, why is the policy to remove a package just because the
maintainer has abandoned it? If there are no outstanding problems, what
would be the harm of leaving it in until a problem emerges?
- Barry
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