[csw-maintainers] albumshaper removal

[Peter Bonivart]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński
<maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
> 2012/11/12 <pfelecan at opencsw.org>
> > What's the rationale behind the removal of albumshaper from the catalog ?
>
> From another posting[1]:
>
> """While at it we dropped a whole bunch of packages probably no longer
> useful or unmaintained. If any of your active packages is involved we
> apologize in advance and would kindly request a rebuild."""
>
> So you have been apologized to for it in advance, and it's been
> requested that you rebuild albumshaper and upload it.

But in this case albumshaper was updated just a few months ago by
Peter F himself so it should be considered actively maintained. Why
did someone consider the package to be "not useful" without asking the
maintainer first? Or is there a technical reason for it having to be
rebuilt just now? That's not clear by the apology.

I think it would have been better to publish a list of packages
supposed to be deleted from the catalog and let others have an opinion
about them instead of just removing them and apologizing in general
for it. I from time to time get emails about not maintaining a package
any longer so someone either updated my package or it got removed
without me getting any info about it. It annoys me.

/peter