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On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 02:47 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:44:22 -0800 |
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> "Alec Warner" <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > Uh... So where do the original problems come from? Are you saying |
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> > > that packages mysteriously start breaking on their own because |
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> > > no-one's maintaining them? |
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> > Of course they do |
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> Ah, right. Because of the magical elf that lives in the CVS server |
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> that mysteriously goes around breaking dependencies when no-one's |
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> looking. |
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> Yes, a magical elf. Much more plausible than the theory that it's |
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> actually developers screwing up by dropping keywords or best keyworded |
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> version on a package's deps. |
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Software that is not maintained is known to fail after some time; not |
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because the software changes, but the environment the software has to |
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interact with - but i guess you know that very well. |
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Really, this discussion is completely pointless unless some mips |
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users/developers join in - or aren't there any at all? |
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Matthias |
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