From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arne Fitzenreiter To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: Drop unused/unmaintained packages Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 18:49:03 +0100 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20200212093453.5732-1-michael.tremer@ipfire.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2230734241783678020==" List-Id: --===============2230734241783678020== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have not dropped the i2c_tools and w_scan yet. i2c_tools is nice to debug temperature sensors and for checking if the i2c busses are working. w_scan is used for scanning DVB-T channels and we have working replacement yet. Arne Am 2020-02-12 10:34, schrieb Michael Tremer: > Hello everyone, > > I would like to propose to drop the following packages. > > They are either not maintained upstream any more, not used by virtually > anyone, or they are already broken and do not build anyways. > > I see a big danger here when we ship software that is dangerously > broken. Of that, we have much more in the distribution and potentially > we might drop it, too. > > If you have previously worked on a package or even submitted > that package and want it to remain a part of IPFire, please > check if any updates are available from upstream and submit > patches. Otherwise there is a higher chance that your package > is being dropped, too. > > We have only limited resources right now and would like to work > on things that have a large impact on all users. Maintaining, > patching and fixing outdated software where even maintainers have > given up is time-consuming and benefits very few people. > > Please see these patches as a proposal. Feel free to disagree > and become a maintainer for those packages. > > Best, > -Michael --===============2230734241783678020==--