> * 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 > What if there are no other devs/maintainer? Maintainers have to be trusted, have to prove that they know what their doing etc... I wouldn't want someone random person from the community becoming a maintainer for a package or two, because you don't know what he or she knows. I wouldn't want to install a pkg that wipes out my whole /usr dir by mistake. Also if security is a big concern arch isn't probably the best distro to be using.
