[Mageia-dev] List of un-maintained packages

Tue Nov 29 18:33:15 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Kamil Rytarowski at 28/11/11 20:38 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 28.11.2011 21:15, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
+>> Op maandag 28 november 2011 14:09:16 schreef Kamil Rytarowski:
+>>> On 28.11.2011 13:41, Bruno Cornec wrote:
+>>>> (..)
+>>>> So I guess there is something wrong here. Or are we so few that nobody
+>>>> want to take these ?
+>>> Some time ago I made a list of unmaintained packages in
+>>> basesystem-minimal:
+>>> attr audit aumix basesystem common-licenses cpio cronie crontabs curl
+>>> cyrus-sasl dash db48 dump elfutils etcskel ethtool findutils gdbm
+>>> gettext glib2.0 gzip ifmetric initscripts kbd krb5 less libcap libdaemon
+>>> libffi libidn libsigsegv libssh2 libtermcap libusb-compat libusb1
+>>> libuser libxml2 logrotate mageia-release makedev meta-task mingetty
+>>> ncurses net-tools nspr nss openssl pam pam_userpass passwd pcre popt
+>>> prcsys procps psmisc readline rootcerts rpmtools rsyslog run-parts sash
+>>> setup shadow-utils sqlite3 sysvinit tcb termcap texinfo time timezone
+>>> udev utempter which
+>> aumix is in basesystem-minimal? are you certain? perhaps you forgot a
+>> --no-
+>> suggests?
+> basesystem-minimal --no-suggests requires aumix-text, and this is a part
+> of aumix source package.
+
+That just seems wrong and likely a hangover from a bygone era. I suggest
+we nuke aumix from this requirement.
+
+Col
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
+Day Job:
+  Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/
+Open Source:
+  Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/
+  PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/
+  Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
+