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Thanks for the reminder ! +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I was really surprised of what I found, and I'm pretty sure some people +</I>><i> have not registered themselves as package maintainer correctly. I can't +</I>><i> believe we could have a working distribution without people in charge +</I>><i> of: +</I>><i> attr +</I>><i> basesystem +</I>><i> bind +</I>><i> bison +</I>><i> busybox +</I>><i> cpio +</I>><i> curl +</I>><i> cvs +</I>><i> docbook-* +</I>><i> dosfstools +</I>><i> findutils +</I>><i> flex +</I>><i> gdb +</I>><i> ghostscript +</I>><i> grub +</I>><i> gzip +</I>><i> initscripts +</I>><i> inn +</I>><i> keychain +</I>><i> less +</I>><i> lilo +</I>><i> locales +</I>><i> logrotate +</I>><i> lzma +</I>><i> mageia-release +</I>><i> man +</I>><i> man-pages +</I>><i> mkinitrd +</I>><i> mt-st +</I>><i> mtools +</I>><i> ncurses +</I>><i> netcat-traditional +</I>><i> ntp +</I>><i> openjade +</I>><i> openssl +</I>><i> openvpn +</I>><i> pam +</I>><i> parted +</I>><i> passwd +</I>><i> procmail +</I>><i> sane +</I>><i> sgml-common +</I>><i> shorewall +</I>><i> sqlite +</I>><i> sudo +</I>><i> sympa +</I>><i> sysstat +</I>><i> tcp_wrappers +</I>><i> tcpdump +</I>><i> tcsh +</I>><i> termcap +</I>><i> traceroute +</I>><i> udev +</I>><i> util-linux-ng +</I>><i> xinetd +</I>><i> xmodmap +</I>><i> (And this is really a list of what looks to me mandatory, I'm sure each +</I>><i> here will make its own, with differences). +</I> +As I've said before I'm happy to be part of a group that maintains some +core things (udev, pam, initscripts to name a few) but I don't have the +time or energy to be the sole official maintainer. + +Until someone actually implements some sensible way of handling groups, +I doubt the maintainership (or rather the lack thereof) of some of the +core packages will change much. :s + +Sadly I've not really got the time or energy to look at implementing the +afore mentioned sensible way of handling groups either! + +Col + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="009964.html">[Mageia-dev] List of un-maintained packages +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="009972.html">[Mageia-dev] List of un-maintained packages +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#9965">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#9965">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#9965">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#9965">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |