On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:09:39AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> 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.
Uhm, the version of GNU make in Debian (3.81beta4) was released
12 December 2005; I wouldn't call that dead (or unmaintained).
Regards: David Weinehall
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