[Mageia-dev] List of un-maintained packages

Mon Nov 28 13:50:45 CET 2011

2011/11/28 Bruno Cornec <Bruno.Cornec at hp.com>
+
+> Hello,
+>
+> I received recently a mail from Samuel Verschelde asking me to look
+> again at the list of un-maintained packages in mageia (either
+> http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/unmaintained.txt or by mgarepo maintdb
+> get | grep nobody). Thanks for the reminder !
+>
+> I was really surprised of what I found, and I'm pretty sure some people
+> have not registered themselves as package maintainer correctly. I can't
+> believe we could have a working distribution without people in charge
+> of:
+> attr
+> basesystem
+> bind
+> bison
+> busybox
+> cpio
+> curl
+> cvs
+> docbook-*
+> dosfstools
+> findutils
+> flex
+> gdb
+> ghostscript
+> grub
+> gzip
+> initscripts
+> inn
+> keychain
+> less
+> lilo
+> locales
+> logrotate
+> lzma
+> mageia-release
+> man
+> man-pages
+> mkinitrd
+> mt-st
+> mtools
+> ncurses
+> netcat-traditional
+> ntp
+> openjade
+> openssl
+> openvpn
+> pam
+> parted
+> passwd
+> procmail
+> sane
+> sgml-common
+> shorewall
+> sqlite
+> sudo
+> sympa
+> sysstat
+> tcp_wrappers
+> tcpdump
+> tcsh
+> termcap
+> traceroute
+> udev
+> util-linux-ng
+> xinetd
+> xmodmap
+> (And this is really a list of what looks to me mandatory, I'm sure each
+> here will make its own, with differences).
+>
+> As much as I'm willing to maintain packages, I don't think I'm the
+> most qualified to take some of these. However, a distro without them
+> maintained has no future :-(
+>
+> So I guess there is something wrong here. Or are we so few that nobody
+> want to take these ?
+>
+> I'm willing to contribute, already "own" 29 pkgs (but some of these
+> because I thought I'd rather take them than leave unmaintained, even if
+> surprised) but don't have that much time, nor expertise to add the full
+> list !
+>
+> Any taker ?
+> Greetings,
+> Bruno.
+> --
+> Open Source & Linux Profession Lead EMEA         http://opensource.hp.com
+> Open Source Solutions Initiative Chief Technologist  http://hpintelco.net
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+>
+
+I can maintain passwd
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