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In Memoriam: the free software projects we lost in 2010In Memoriam: the free software projects we lost in 2010Posted Jan 8, 2011 20:58 UTC (Sat) by adulau (guest, #1131)Parent article: In Memoriam: the free software projects we lost in 2010
Maybe a stupid idea but the Debian packages of procmail is already including more than 25 patches along with some security patches. Why not releasing a new version with those patches and announcing that one as being the updated version? A free software is a living organism and it makes sense to move to the living version.
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In Memoriam: the free software projects we lost in 2010 Posted Jan 19, 2011 19:26 UTC (Wed) by kreutzm (guest, #4700) [Link]
Well, as a maintainer of a package in a similar state I just find it sad that there is so little communication amongst distros for those packages, i.e. several distroy maintain "dead" packages, instead of sharing the load (and reaping the benefits from mutal patches).
In Memoriam: the free software projects we lost in 2010 Posted Jan 20, 2011 3:53 UTC (Thu) by ccurtis (guest, #49713) [Link] As I recall, RPM was in this boat for a while; now if that's not indicative of a problem ...
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