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On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:43:42AM +0200, Al wrote:
>> The apache2 package is orphaned for this long period of time already.
>> Maybe it's time to pull it from the distro, unless somebody would
>> like to take over maintainership.
>>
>
>There is an oss freak in Thuringia, currently working out the idea of
>a common patch repository to bring the DRY principle to patch
>maintenance and to lower the work for each Distro. I think the idea is
>interesting at least and could help in cases like this.
>
>http://www.metux.de/download/oss-qm/normalized_repository.pdf

A pdf is not going to cause a maintainer to materialize.  Especially when
the pdf is unloadable.

cgf

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