On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 10:45:PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >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?
Thanks for your response. The answer to your question is probably lack of thought on my part. I've wondered about this policy for a long time and just this time decided to ask the question. I hadn't connected it to context: No one will notice that a maintainer has disappeared unless there is some sort of issue/bug with the package. -- 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/