[csw-maintainers] time to deprecate CSWmozilla
Ben Walton
bwalton at opencsw.org
Mon Jun 6 03:47:43 CEST 2011
Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Sun Jun 05 13:03:53 -0400 2011:
> so you're suggesting that from now on, no-one should ever bother
> requesting anyone take over orphaned packages, becuase "if anyone
> were interested in packaging them, they would have done so already".
No, the request is fine and I don't mind waiting a week as you
suggest. I'm just saying that we shouldn't let orphaned packages[1]
impede work on things that people do actively care about.
Thanks
-Ben
[1] Especially those that are known broken, have security issues and
are at legacy versions. I would consider an orphaned but current
package differently.
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Ben Walton
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University of Toronto
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