2009/4/7 Wendall Cada <wenda...@83864.com>: > I run several production servers on Hardened Gentoo, and have a concern. > > The perl team has been awesome. I really love that packages are fairly > fresh compared to what is in cpan. However, there is one very important > package that's been ignored for far too long: SpamAssassin > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177144 > > Why has it been waiting for a mips keyword for almost two years? No > reply from mips. Pinging the bug has no effect, as seen with comments > #5-#8. Is the package abandoned? Is there some political issue with > Gentoo that keeps abandoned packages from being reassigned? I would love > to offer my help, but lately those offers have been flat rejected by > Gentoo devs. I guess my lips don't pucker well enough. I would like to > have this package dealt with. There are some important bug fixes in > newer releases.
I can appreciate your frustation. At this point, maybe you should try bringing it to the attention of the QA team (q...@gentoo.org)? Resolving this situation would presumably be in line with their first stated goal, which is to "keep the tree in a state which benefits all of our users and developers alike". Another tactic would be to befriend a developer who has a vested interest in the continued fitness of the package (i.e. is known to be a user) and to ask for their assistance in moving things forwards. Some developers are rather more receptive to contributions from users than others, and you may chance upon one. Cheers, --Kerin
