Roman Kyrylych wrote:
Hi!
We have xfce-svn group in Unstable repo, that was maintained by Shadowhand until he resigned as a maintainer. Because packages are not maintained now users fill bugreports about non-working packages. Is there a need in xfce-svn now? If noone is interested in maintaining them then I propose to remove them.
AFAIR the initial interest in these packages was due to the longer-than-expected wait for the official 4.4 release. This is now in extra for quite a while, and I know many former svn users have changed over to it. xerverius, an Arch-using xfce dev who frequents the forum, strongly recommends that course of action to anyone who will listen - however, people hold out, for whatever reason. I believe the expectation that people have of the unstable repo is that it will provide the latest bleeding-edge-almost-to-the-point-of-failure versions of whatever apps we put there. I used to see xfce-svn as the unstable 'flagship', but that is no longer the case, and as it seems nobody wants to maintain it, I agree that it would be better to remove it from the repo. Perhaps a TU would like to look after it in community? T.