On Sat, Jan 22, 2000, Josip Rodin wrote:
> I think we should remove some of the older orphaned packages from the
> unstable archive (woody). No, not from frozen - we kept them this long, we
> can keep them for this release. Richard Braakman (the release manager) told
> me he agrees.
>
> The point is, they have been orphaned for too long, and it appears nobody
> wants them enough to adopt them... it someone appears to want them now, they
> can pick them up from project/orphaned directory on any Debian FTP mirror.
>
> Also, the QA people really have better things to do than to keep fixing some
> old and probably forgotten packages, please understand that.
>
> Here is an excerpt from WNPP's orphaned packages list, I'm including some
> interesting (read: really old) entries:
[..]
> * By Hugo Haas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> (175 Days Orphaned)
> iplogger
>
> ippl replaces this completely, IIRC.
That's ok by me, except that Johnie Ingram wrote to me long ago saying:
If all else fails give it back to me, I might keep it around for
nostaligic reasons (this was my 1st or 2nd package ever)....
So Johnie, I think that everything else failed. :-)
Regards,
Hugo
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It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really
quite busy.
