[csw-maintainers] comments on camp "wave", solaris 9 vs 10, etc

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Thu Aug 19 17:33:04 CEST 2010


On Thursday, August 19, 2010, Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote:
...


> - if the maintainers *decides* that the effort is to important, he can
>   orphan the package on Solaris 9; this bring us to a situation when
>   somebody can take up the orphaned package and have 2 different
>   maintainers
>


this would make sense in cases where the package has actual different
functionality at runtime. however if there is no difference, seems to
me the person willing to deal with the sol9 package is then producing
a single package that works for both, and should then get to be the
sole maintainer of the package


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