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[Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later

+ Maarten Vanraes + alien at rmail.be +
+ Thu Dec 8 20:10:30 CET 2011 +

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Op donderdag 08 december 2011 13:13:28 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
+[...]
+> > I look into many really abandoned packages, without any interest among
+> > the packagers, and for some of them it's even quite hard to find any
+> > on-line resource.. For example cpuinfo, it's a /proc/* parser for CPU
+> > related data. It's 2-3 years old (so what about the new hardware?!),
+> > even the author of the software isn't responding to e-mail to just point
+> > a working URL for his software.
+> 
+> This example is not really about the package having no maintainer, but
+> rather for it being dead upstream, which often leads to removal of the
+> distribution unless a packager becomes the de-facto upstream and has time,
+> willingness and knowledge to patch it when needed (works also if it's
+> being maintained in other distributions).
+
+imho we could easily drop cpuinfo, i mean, unless it's used as a dependency in 
+something greater, it seems a bit useless to me...
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