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On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:41:09 -0400 |
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Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote: |
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> > That's actually how I read the first email, was that it's really |
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> > the majority of the _minor_ packages that get completely neglected, |
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> > and just sits in the tree for months or years marked unstable |
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> > because nobody cares. The people that use it have marked it ~arch |
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> > a long time ago in their package.keywords because they know it |
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> > works just fine. |
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> Well, we would hope that people using the package would file a bug, |
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> but this obviously doesn't always happen. |
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It indeed doesn't - I have quite a few friends who complained to me |
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that package xxx is still in ~arch despite being in the tree for a long |
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time, and when I asked them if they filed a bug to ask for |
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stabilization, they reply that they didn't know it could be done this |
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way, or worse, that they simply do not have time for such thing (!!!). |
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Andrej |
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