Re: [PATCH] xscreenshot and imagefile

[Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>]

Hello all,

chiming in a bit late for lack of time earlier.

First of all, thanks, Alf, for joining us and proposing a package. It is
a bit unfortunate that your first contribution turned out to be a bit
controversial, and I hope this will not discourage you from taking part
in the endeavour in the future!

In general, I agree with the policy that free software that is of use to
someone can be included. Usually, the fact that someone makes the effort
to package it can be seen as a proof of usefulness... I suppose you are
using this software and have not just packaged it as an exercise, Alf?

On the other hand, I slightly doubt this your sentence, Pjotr:

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 09:04:05AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> Unmaintained, defunct or nasty software gets removed eventually.

Lately I am a bit fed up with software that does not build on hydra (be it
on mips or even mainstream architectures), with the last release dating
sometimes a decade back and that nobody bothers to fix (without an active
upstream, that is not a very rewarding activity anyway). Some of these
might not even currently have users, if the initial submitter has walked
away. So I think we should not hesitate to remove software a bit more
aggressively in the future.

Given the facts that Mark researched (two lonely commits a year ago, not
even a single release) xscreenshot seems to fall into the "unmaintained"
category, and I am not exactly enthusiastic about adding it. It not being
in Debian, while not the only criterion, is another hint.

Andreas