Bug#273316: [Fwd: Re: Beaver Adoption]
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I am letting go of this ITA as the previous maintainer agrees with me
that the package should be let go.
- -- Chris Sacca
- -------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Beaver Adoption
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 10:31:59 +0530
From: rkrishnan@symonds.net (Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan)
Organization: Free Software for the Free World
To: Chris Sacca <csacca@thecsl.org>
References: <41FF9E94.5040101@thecsl.org> <86fz0gcjeq.fsf@symonds.net>
<4207C899.8060708@thecsl.org>
~ || On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:59:21 -0500
~ || Chris Sacca <csacca@thecsl.org> wrote:
~ csacca> Well, I made a package of 0.2.7 that's lintian and linda clean.
~ It's
~ csacca> a newer version and has some bug fixes, but I'm not sure if it
should
~ csacca> really be uploaded. First off, I couldn't get 0.3.1 to
compile for
~ csacca> me, so I wasn't able to make a package closing the GTK2 bug on
beaver.
~ csacca> Secondly, and more importaintly, upstream isn't really alive.
Yes, that was the reason I gave it up. And I don't use beaver too.
~ csacca> I really like beaver, but I don't really have the time ( or
really the
~ csacca> skills ) to maintian the actual code base. Given that, what
should
~ csacca> happen?
I personally believe, that software which has no upstream maintainership
should
not be in debian, because it will become a maintainance nightmare for
the maintainer.
And there are quite a lot of replacements, so the active usebase will
move on,
rendering the package useless.
~ csacca> My package of beaver 0.2.7 is at
http://csacca.thecsl.org/debian/beaver/
~ csacca> but perhaps beaver should be dropped from debian as no one is
~ csacca> maintaining the code any more.
Yes, that's what I too feel.
- --
~ Ramakrishnan http://www.hackGNU.org/
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