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To: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
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Subject: Re: working port for arla-0.31
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Date: 28 Feb 2000 15:28:25 +0100
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Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> writes:
> About time! I was pretty intent on submitting a port removal request for
> this particular port, since I've never seen it build successfully before.

Thanks.  Having it there but not building didn't make me very happy
either...

> > the maintainer (thepish).  As far as I can tell, the maintainer does
> > not have time to deal with this.
> 
> Yeah, I'd say that's correct. Some people just don't have time to do
> anything.. some don't care enough to even delegate the task to someone who
> does have enough time to get the job done.

I do understand volunteers not having time, but then hopefully
somebody else will take over.

> > -Version 0.9 status:
> > +Version 0.31 status:
> 
> Instead of this (to prevent further unnecessary diffs), why not something
> like "Current arla status:" ?

Sure, of just a reference to the web-page, it's better with a
reference to the canonical reference than an out-of-date pseudo-copy.

/assar


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