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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Package adoption campaign, 3 months later</H1>
<B>Maarten Vanraes</B>
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<PRE>Op donderdag 08 december 2011 13:13:28 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
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><i> > I look into many really abandoned packages, without any interest among
</I>><i> > the packagers, and for some of them it's even quite hard to find any
</I>><i> > on-line resource.. For example cpuinfo, it's a /proc/* parser for CPU
</I>><i> > related data. It's 2-3 years old (so what about the new hardware?!),
</I>><i> > even the author of the software isn't responding to e-mail to just point
</I>><i> > a working URL for his software.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> This example is not really about the package having no maintainer, but
</I>><i> rather for it being dead upstream, which often leads to removal of the
</I>><i> distribution unless a packager becomes the de-facto upstream and has time,
</I>><i> willingness and knowledge to patch it when needed (works also if it's
</I>><i> being maintained in other distributions).
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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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