Tim Walberg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > 'accepted "bugs" not being fixed' is not equivalent to 'package is > >> > not being maintained'... at least not in my admittedly meager grasp > >> > of logic... > >> > >> They told me that fixing would take "a while". If you believe that > >> "a while" is 20 years, then you seem to live in a different universe then I do. > >> > > Indeed... I had already concluded that. It now seems that in > your universe, the time span between 1999 and 2006 is on > the order of 20 years, which seems to be a factor of nearly > 3 over what it is in my universe (either that, or it's not > 2006 where you are, but rather 2019...). I don't know in which universe you live, but in my universe software that does not fix severe bugs after 7 years or does not publish a new version at least every 2-3 years is called deas and unmaintained. Both applies to GNU make. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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