[Nix-dev] geeqie: remove?

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi all,

On 18/03/12 17:48, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

>> I'm going to drop libchamplain support because it depends on really
>> old version of libchamplain.
> 
> Please don’t.  Perhaps newer Geeqie versions can use newer libchamplain
> versions?
> 
> Again, please don’t set such hard deadlines.  Keeping Geeqie around
> costs almost nothing in terms of maintainability.

General note: cleaning up old, broken, unmaintained packages is a good thing,
but if a package builds and has a maintainer (like Geeqie) then

- It's better to discuss removal or dependency issues with the maintainer (CC
nix-dev); and

- Posting "I'll remove <foo> in <N> days unless somebody objects" is not a great
idea because the people who care about <foo> (such as the maintainer) might not
see such a message on time.

It also follows from this that packages should have maintainers.  So if you care
about a package that doesn't have a meta.maintainer and you have the time to
keep it up-to-date, please consider adding yourself as a maintainer to that package.

-- 
Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/