From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: [PATCH] xscreenshot and imagefile Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 19:59:07 +0200 Message-ID: <20150731175907.GA9347@debian> References: <87a8uf2c94.fsf@netris.org> <87oaiue4hh.fsf@netris.org> <20150730070405.GA9314@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37879) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZLEaY-0000va-CF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 13:59:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZLEaS-0001ex-Bn for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 13:59:22 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.13]:63130) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZLEaS-0001em-3k for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 13:59:16 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150730070405.GA9314@thebird.nl> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Pjotr Prins Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org 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