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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