Maybe it would be a good idea to bring this issue to g-p-d? No, that would be a terrible idea, unless your goal is to generate 100 useless pieces of off-topic email :).
The right person to talk to about a stale package would be its maintainer(s), in this case Sergey Poznyakoff and Paul Eggert. If they don't answer (in this case I'm sure they would), then there is [email protected] (aka me). And the ultimate answer is, you can always volunteer to work on the package yourself :). I've talked to both of them recently about paxutils (among other things), and below is what Sergey had to say. More generally, there are many GNU packages in various stages of staleness. I've talked to all the maintainers. Sometimes things eventually get updated, other times, not. Sometimes eventually the maintainer resigns or disappears (so we look for a new one), or the package get decomissioned, or some other outcome is reached. Sometimes not. That's life. It's not realistic to expect every package to be up to date, although that is surely the theoretical goal that rms/karl/all are always working toward. As long as I'm writing about such things: if anyone here has time and interest in working on grep or sed, they are by far the highest profile packages that need maintainers now. karl Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 11:23:45 +0200 From: Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]> To: "Karl Berry" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> [...] so far Paxutils acts as a repository of code shared between tar and cpio. But that is temporary. It will become a full-fledged project soon. Regards, Sergey
