BUG: cygwin implementation of Debian package tools

[Reini Urban]

Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) schrieb:
> At Friday, October 29, 2004 1:28 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
>>Since Robert Collins is no longer actively involved with the Cygwin
>>community, this package is now unmaintained.
>>
>>If no one wants to claim it within the next week or so, I'll probably
>>remove it from the distribution.
>>
>>cgf
> 
> Out of curiosity, why is the policy to remove a package just because the
> maintainer has abandoned it?  If there are no outstanding problems, what
> would be the harm of leaving it in until a problem emerges?

He just said "probably remove it"  1. to be very mean, 2. to gain 
attention for someone to pick it up...

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