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Subject: Re: distro "apache2" will not start
From: Al <oss DOT elmar AT googlemail DOT com>
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> 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

Al

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