[Mageia-dev] List of un-maintained packages

[Sandro CAZZANIGA]

2011/11/28 Bruno Cornec <Bruno.Cornec at hp.com>

> Hello,
>
> I received recently a mail from Samuel Verschelde asking me to look
> again at the list of un-maintained packages in mageia (either
> http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/unmaintained.txt or by mgarepo maintdb
> get | grep nobody). Thanks for the reminder !
>
> I was really surprised of what I found, and I'm pretty sure some people
> have not registered themselves as package maintainer correctly. I can't
> believe we could have a working distribution without people in charge
> of:
> attr
> basesystem
> bind
> bison
> busybox
> cpio
> curl
> cvs
> docbook-*
> dosfstools
> findutils
> flex
> gdb
> ghostscript
> grub
> gzip
> initscripts
> inn
> keychain
> less
> lilo
> locales
> logrotate
> lzma
> mageia-release
> man
> man-pages
> mkinitrd
> mt-st
> mtools
> ncurses
> netcat-traditional
> ntp
> openjade
> openssl
> openvpn
> pam
> parted
> passwd
> procmail
> sane
> sgml-common
> shorewall
> sqlite
> sudo
> sympa
> sysstat
> tcp_wrappers
> tcpdump
> tcsh
> termcap
> traceroute
> udev
> util-linux-ng
> xinetd
> xmodmap
> (And this is really a list of what looks to me mandatory, I'm sure each
> here will make its own, with differences).
>
> As much as I'm willing to maintain packages, I don't think I'm the
> most qualified to take some of these. However, a distro without them
> maintained has no future :-(
>
> So I guess there is something wrong here. Or are we so few that nobody
> want to take these ?
>
> I'm willing to contribute, already "own" 29 pkgs (but some of these
> because I thought I'd rather take them than leave unmaintained, even if
> surprised) but don't have that much time, nor expertise to add the full
> list !
>
> Any taker ?
> Greetings,
> Bruno.
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I can maintain passwd
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