On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Vaeth > <va...@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote: >> Please, please, stop removing packages for no reason! >> This happens now way too often: >> > > If folks do not want to maintain it anymore, then it will be removed. > Feel free to contribute to Gentoo and maintain the packages. >
I think this makes sense, IFF there is something fundamentally wrong with the package. Being unmaintained in and of itself is not something fundamentally wrong with the package. Having a few open bugs is not either. Having security problems or being unusable is. I'd throw in things like serious file collisions and similar serious quality problems as well. I'd even throw in a missing distfile, but only if no user of the software is willing to proxy maintain that aspect of the package. The one thing missing from this discussion is that users CAN proxy-maintain things. Oh, and ANYBODY can run an overlay (it just won't necessarily be listed in layman - but that is how every distro does it). I do think it is a loss for Gentoo if we start removing packages simply because they don't change (which is all a dead upstream means - it isn't always a bad thing). Rich
