W dniu pią, 22.06.2018 o godzinie 21∶50 -0500, użytkownik Marty E. Plummer napisał: > So, as you may be aware I've been doing some work on moving bzip2 to an > autotools based build. Recently I've ran into app-crypt/mhash, which is > in a semi-abandoned state (talking with the maintainer on twitter atm), > and I was thinking it may be a good idea to set up a project for keeping > these semi-abandoned and really-abandoned libraries and projects up to > date and such. > > Basically, an upstream for packages who's upstream is either > uncontactable or is otherwise not accepting bug fixes and patches. So > far I can only think of app-crypt/mhash and app-arch/bzip2 but I'm sure > there are others in this state. >
So in order to fix problem of semi-abandoned packages, you're creating an indirect herd-like entity that will soon be semi-abandoned itself because people will be dumping random packages into it and afterwards nobody will claim responsibility for them. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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