> > Last Debian Weekly News says that a Maintainer dropped 18 packages out > of frustration with the slow pace of Debian 3.0. It also says that > this slow pace is because Bugs are simply not fixed.
Yes, I read about that in the Debian Week too. > > > If companies would a) adopt Debian packages (by inhouse programmers), > and/or b) sponsor packages Maintainers, there would be some economic > thrive behind the Debian Releases, and it would just be fair, because > Debian is thriving a lot of companies, isn't it? > True... but not to the point (at least for us) to hire a person to specifically maintain debian packages and such. We run a mirror in HK :-) It would have been nice if Corel's spin on Debian took off, as they could then really sponsor some developers to work on debian/corel's distro. Hum... i wonder if any other distro's based on Debian are helping out...
