Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:45:03 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: BUG: cygwin implementation of Debian package tools Message-ID: <20041030024503.GB1556@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 06:09:34PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote: >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? Out of curiousity, why would you respond to a message where the subject contains the word "BUG" and then opine that someone is removing a package which has no outstanding problems? And, no Reini, I wasn't being "mean" and I wasn't trying to goad anybody into volunteering. I truly didn't think that very many people were using this package and an unmaintained, buggy package is just a package which is taking up disk space and causing the occasional user hearburn. I am surprised and gratified that we got a volunteer to support it so quickly, however. cgf -- 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/