Comment 8 for bug 94274

Op donderdag 05-04-2007 om 14:55 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef manu:
> amedee wrote:
> > I can't help feeling guilty. Because I reported a bug in kdar, I
> > contributed in the _removal_ of a very nice piece of software that was
> > once the work of one or more passionate developers. Sometimes I wish I
> > hadn't added my comments to the bug report and just shut up my big
> > mouth... :-(
>
> The reality is that KDar is unmaintained. That is the real problem. If
> you could do something to fix it, great! Otherwise, let it broken and
> uninstallable was of no help to anyone and I think it would be even more
> annoying (why ship a package that is broken and unmaintained?).
>
> Someone said that KDar could be kept around for a while as long as
> someone volunteered to package and maintain libdar3c2a. First, that
> person is nowhere to be seen. Second, upstream DAR is not maintaining
> that library anymore, so any security issues would need to be tracked
> and fixed by the packager.
>
> I am sure Ubuntu would love to support as much software as possible but
> their time/resources are limited, so it is better to focus on software
> that is maintained upstream or that has a very dedicated packager
> behind. I was myself a heavy user of KDar. Unfortunately, I don't have
> the money to convince the developer of KDar to release a new version and
> I don't have the available time to try to do it myself. If you really
> love KDar and you think that there are more users like you, then build a
> community around it and try to boost its development (or a least make it
> build with a recent version of DAR). As long as there are people
> *really* interested, nothing can stop them from do it. That is the
> beauty of free software.

I know.
And if I had the time...
Perhaps if every day had 28 hours...

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Amedee Van Gasse <email address hidden>