[Mageia-dev] List of un-maintained packages

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op dinsdag 29 november 2011 18:36:39 schreef Colin Guthrie:
> 'Twas brillig, and Bruno Cornec at 28/11/11 12:41 did gyre and gimble:
> > 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 I've said before I'm happy to be part of a group that maintains some
> core things (udev, pam, initscripts to name a few) but I don't have the
> time or energy to be the sole official maintainer.
> 
> Until someone actually implements some sensible way of handling groups,
> I doubt the maintainership (or rather the lack thereof) of some of the
> core packages will change much. :s
> 
> Sadly I've not really got the time or energy to look at implementing the
> afore mentioned sensible way of handling groups either!
> 
> Col

I second that (but with different packages)