On 11/10/16 18:19, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
Hi,
here is a short list of packages looking for adoption by a nice maintainer:
benchmark/iozone
developer/fakeroot
developer/versioning/guilt
editor/bvi
editor/jedit
image/virtualgl
library/idnkit
library/libosip2
library/xmlrpc-c
shell/shmux
terminal/roxterm
web/aget
Considering that we have been talking about this for several months,
if nobody is interested in updating them right now, I guess they
should simply be deprecated instead of carrying old versions around.
Aurélien
Some old open source programs are not maintained any more but they do
well what they are supposed to do. I think xfig is in this case. However
they are still usefull and used. It is always a loss of time to have to
find a source and recompile it when you install a new computer with a
recent OS distribution (such as OI-Hipster1604).
There are also programs that are still maintained but of which an old
version is in OI, such as cups: it is better to have an old cups than no
cups at all.
As long as such programs work I would keep them in distributions. If one
does not like to have them with the others, they could somehow be
flagged as old.
I'll see if I can make a package with a working version of xfig. Can you
point me to an howto (assuming I have a working compiled version for OI).
Thanks
Marc
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