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On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 04:15:18 -0400, |
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Dale wrote: |
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> John Covici wrote: |
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> > I am seeing a lot more unmaintained packages -- at least in the ones I |
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> > have -- than there used to be and bugs going unanswered probably |
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> > because of that. Not sure what to do about it, I don't have time to |
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> > get into doing this much, just keeping up with world updates is quite |
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> > time consuming all by itself. |
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> That may be but the packages that are most used are likely maintained |
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> and well maintained at that. There are some old packages that haven't |
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> been updated in years, upstream is dead or no one uses them much anymore |
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> that are slowly being removed. If one can't install them, no real point |
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> in them being in the tree. I might add, the switch from the much older |
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> pythons are really forcing a house cleaning. But, some packages are |
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> just out of date and something new has taken their place. Nothing new |
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> there. I'm sure this happens with every distro out there, even the paid |
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> ones. |
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> I follow -dev and have recently had to uninstall a package and install |
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> something else that is newer and more up to date. I saw a message about |
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> that old package that seemed to stop working for me a good while ago. |
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> What I had still lurking about would sometimes crash and I didn't trust |
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> it. I used to use that as a GUI to manage LVM. I use LVM a lot here. |
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> In that message was them removing the old package and recommending a |
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> replacement I never heard of. I installed it and it may actually be |
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> better than the old software I used to use. While the old package may |
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> be gone, the new one seems to be more up to date, stable and appears to |
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> have a better design. Different for sure, I'll have to learn how the |
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> GUI does its thing but could be better in the end. Since LVM has been |
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> updated a good bit in the past year or so, that old software either |
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> needed a lot of work or just use the newer software. |
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> There are a lot of packages that are just not used by enough people to |
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> maintain them anymore. Some are being replaced with more up to date |
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> packages. There are lots of reasons for that. If a package you use is |
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> being removed, search -dev and look to see if there is a replacement |
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> mentioned in the last rites message. If it was removed, they almost |
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> always include a replacement if there is one. Sometimes another package |
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> absorbs what the old package used to do. While at times -dev can get |
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> quite busy, I'd be lost without it. Things are mentioned there about |
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> upcoming changes that I don't see mentioned anywhere else. That |
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> includes this list as well. It's a great way to keep somewhat up to |
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> date on what's going on. One doesn't have to read every post either. |
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> After a while, you can tell by the subject line if that thread will be |
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> anything you would be interested in. Last rites, things about upgrades |
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> and such get my attention. I generally know when something big is going |
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> to happen weeks or even months before it hits the tree. |
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> If you want to share what packages you are missing out on, I'd be glad |
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> to search my -dev archives and see if I can find something that may help. |
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Well, teamviewer is the worst -- teamviewer 15 won't emerge because it |
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will overwrite files belonging to the previous version (!da). Someone |
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even slotted the thing, but still no joy. I filed a bug, but no |
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response. Also, although I don't think there is a new version, but |
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sendmail seens to be unmaintained. |
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Also, ant-core -- there is a bug against that, but no fix as yet. |
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-- |
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Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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How do |
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you spend it? |
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John Covici wb2una |
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covici@××××××××××.com |