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On Tuesday 24 October 2006 09:08, local account for liebichw wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I've been using xmms for the last ... n years :-) (b/c it was reasonably |
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> simple, allowed control via xmms-shell, too & didn't pull in too much |
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> (ok, except gtk 1 - which is a nuisance). Why the sudden death? |
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it death was not sudden. |
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It is dead for years. Last release was two and a half year ago. It devs ceased |
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any developing. It depends on a toolkit, that is dead too. Security problems |
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and other bugs were not patched anymore. No maintainace release, nothing. |
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It is full of bugs (-r16 should have told you, that there are lots of probs), |
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there are lots of open bugs in the gentoo bugzilla that are so old, that they |
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started to have children, saw them grow up, got to school, finish school, |
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marry and have little bug children themselves. |
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In short: it was hardly maintainable anymore and nobody stepped up to do it |
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anyway. |
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And there is a rule about unmaintained packages with dead upstream and working |
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successors: they get killed. |
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Everybody who reads gentoo-dev once in a while knew, that this day would |
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come - and nobody should really be surprised. |
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