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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:48:30
Message-Id: 4D25C7FC.4070506@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs by Christian Faulhammer
1 On 01/06/2011 07:17 AM, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I would like to drop some packages that I do not use or really care for:
5 >
6 > dev-lang/erlang
7 > Very little bug inflow, responsive upstream (subscribe to their
8 > -patches and -bugs mailing lists), great support from users. lang-misc
9 > is still there as herd maintainer, but hardly alive. One bug open
10 > (compile failure in ~arch, upstream informed, package hard masked),
11 > which I would like to close on my own.
12 >
13 > app-text/rnv
14 > Near to no maintenance work.
15 >
16 > dev-libs/qof
17 > Very little maintenance.
18 >
19 > net-misc/tor
20 > A bump here and there (especially security fixes). Upstream really
21 > nice, there were user requests for beta ebuilds which I have no time to
22 > provide.
23 >
24 > V-Li
25 >
26
27 I'll take net-mis/tor. I know the upstream people.
28
29 --
30 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
31 Gentoo Developer