Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <4182C8D5.8070207@x-ray.at> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:48:53 +0200 From: Reini Urban User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: BUG: cygwin implementation of Debian package tools References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) schrieb: > At Friday, October 29, 2004 1:28 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>Since Robert Collins is no longer actively involved with the Cygwin >>community, this package is now unmaintained. >> >>If no one wants to claim it within the next week or so, I'll probably >>remove it from the distribution. >> >>cgf > > Out of curiosity, why is the policy to remove a package just because the > maintainer has abandoned it? If there are no outstanding problems, what > would be the harm of leaving it in until a problem emerges? He just said "probably remove it" 1. to be very mean, 2. to gain attention for someone to pick it up... -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/