On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:41:09 -0400
Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > That's actually how I read the first email, was that it's really
> > the majority of the _minor_ packages that get completely neglected,
> > and just sits in the tree for months or years marked unstable
> > because nobody cares.  The people that use it have marked it ~arch
> > a long time ago in their package.keywords because they know it
> > works just fine.
> 
> Well, we would hope that people using the package would file a bug,
> but this obviously doesn't always happen.

It indeed doesn't - I have quite a few friends who complained to me
that package xxx is still in ~arch despite being in the tree for a long
time, and when I asked them if they filed a bug to ask for
stabilization, they reply that they didn't know it could be done this
way, or worse, that they simply do not have time for such thing (!!!).

-- 
Andrej

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