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From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder AT niaid DOT nih DOT gov>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: BUG: cygwin implementation of Debian package tools
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:09:34 -0400
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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?

- Barry

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