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I am letting go of this ITA as the previous maintainer agrees with me that the package should be let go.
- -- Chris Sacca
- -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Beaver Adoption Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 10:31:59 +0530 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan) Organization: Free Software for the Free World To: Chris Sacca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~ || On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:59:21 -0500 ~ || Chris Sacca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
~ csacca> Well, I made a package of 0.2.7 that's lintian and linda clean. ~ It's ~ csacca> a newer version and has some bug fixes, but I'm not sure if it should ~ csacca> really be uploaded. First off, I couldn't get 0.3.1 to compile for ~ csacca> me, so I wasn't able to make a package closing the GTK2 bug on beaver. ~ csacca> Secondly, and more importaintly, upstream isn't really alive.
Yes, that was the reason I gave it up. And I don't use beaver too.
~ csacca> I really like beaver, but I don't really have the time ( or really the ~ csacca> skills ) to maintian the actual code base. Given that, what should ~ csacca> happen?
I personally believe, that software which has no upstream maintainership should not be in debian, because it will become a maintainance nightmare for the maintainer. And there are quite a lot of replacements, so the active usebase will move on, rendering the package useless.
~ csacca> My package of beaver 0.2.7 is at http://csacca.thecsl.org/debian/beaver/ ~ csacca> but perhaps beaver should be dropped from debian as no one is ~ csacca> maintaining the code any more.
Yes, that's what I too feel.
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