BUG: cygwin implementation of Debian package tools
Reini Urban
rurban@x-ray.at
Sat Oct 30 02:45:00 GMT 2004
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) schrieb:
> 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?
He just said "probably remove it" 1. to be very mean, 2. to gain
attention for someone to pick it up...
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