[Mageia-dev] List of un-maintained packages

Tue Nov 29 22:47:55 CET 2011

Op dinsdag 29 november 2011 18:36:39 schreef Colin Guthrie:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Bruno Cornec at 28/11/11 12:41 did gyre and gimble:
+> > 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 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
+
+I second that (but with different packages)
+