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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:13:50PM +0300, Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> On Monday 14 August 2006 23:00, Andraž "ruskie" Levstik wrote:
> 
> > This would be for spells that:
> > a) don't have upstream support(this is basicaly a must)
> > b) fail to build, relevant to point a
> > c) bitrotten stuff, relevant to point a
> > d) fail to run properly even if they run, relevant to point a
> > e) are simply not used anylonger(I think gnome1 fits in here)
> 
> For a spell to fulfill all these would mean the program is _seriously_ 
> rotten. 
> Do you mean that nothing less would qualify a spell as deprecated?
> 
> (Don't get me wrong here, I'm all for a strict policy on this one. I just 
> want 
> to mentally try out the options. Also forgive me if I'm asking about 
> something you already stated...)

Not all of them at the same time. Point a together with any of the
others should be enough in general. Of course if there's someone who
wants to continue maintaining the spell, and really does that, such a
spell can still stay in the main grimoire, but if there's no maintainer,
it would get moved out.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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