On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 06:09:34PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote: >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?
Out of curiousity, why would you respond to a message where the subject contains the word "BUG" and then opine that someone is removing a package which has no outstanding problems? And, no Reini, I wasn't being "mean" and I wasn't trying to goad anybody into volunteering. I truly didn't think that very many people were using this package and an unmaintained, buggy package is just a package which is taking up disk space and causing the occasional user hearburn. I am surprised and gratified that we got a volunteer to support it so quickly, however. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
