* Attila <attila@invalid.invalid> wrote: > On Sonntag, 4. Mai 2008 12:47 Tino Reichardt wrote: > > > If they don't have the time to be a maintainer for some package, they > > shouldn't be the maintainer of it! > > For me this is definitely too hard. And unfair because archlinux is a > distribution (as a lot of other too) which is managed by private individual > for private individual. > > The devs of archlinux gives us with abs a perfect and easy understandable way > to make in the most cases updates at the time we wants it. Irony on: That is > why other distros with another package magagment needs fulltime > maintaining.-) > > And to the argument of that clamav is a "security update": This is only > relevant for servers which have windows clients and in this case, sorry, this > is at first the job of the admin of the server and "opps" this be you and not > the maintainer of a package. It isn't to hard. Its just the plain truth. If the maintainer hasn't the time, he should give the package to someone else, which has the time. PS: I am not an admin of some important server which needs an update ;) -- regards, TR
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