Re: [PATCH] xscreenshot and imagefile

[Pjotr Prins]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 07:59:07PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 09:04:05AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> > Unmaintained, defunct or nasty software gets removed eventually.
> 
> Lately I am a bit fed up with software that does not build on hydra (be it
> on mips or even mainstream architectures), with the last release dating
> sometimes a decade back and that nobody bothers to fix (without an active
> upstream, that is not a very rewarding activity anyway). Some of these
> might not even currently have users, if the initial submitter has walked
> away. So I think we should not hesitate to remove software a bit more
> aggressively in the future.

I think this agrees with my statement ;). Aggressive removing of
broken software is a pretty good idea.

> Given the facts that Mark researched (two lonely commits a year ago, not
> even a single release) xscreenshot seems to fall into the "unmaintained"
> category, and I am not exactly enthusiastic about adding it. It not being
> in Debian, while not the only criterion, is another hint.

Yeah. But it is up to the submitter, indeed. If he maintains it, who
are we to argue?

Pj.

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