Received: from out.migadu.com (out.migadu.com [91.121.223.63]) by nld3-dev1.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3BE69782E47 for <~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org>; Fri, 24 Jan 2020 20:35:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (Migadu outbound); Fri, 24 Jan 2020 20:34:35 +0000 Authentication-Results: out.migadu.com; auth=pass (plain) Received: from wms1-eu-central.migadu.com (wms1-eu-central.migadu.com [172.104.244.218]) by out.migadu.com (Haraka/2.8.16) with ESMTPSA id 7C304FC9-307D-4064-9CF8-0CEEA216BDF9.1 envelope-from (authenticated bits=0) (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 verify=FAIL); Fri, 24 Jan 2020 20:34:31 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 20:34:31 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: RainLoop/1.12.1 From: "Ariadne Conill" Message-ID: Subject: cleaning up bitrot in the distribution To: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org DKIM-Signature: v=1;a=rsa-sha256;bh=bUQjJAgFV67hhzyiWbmhucWU4i+jI/Iqa3C1g8f7/Cs=;c=relaxed/simple;d=dereferenced.org;h=from:subject:date:to;s=default;b=Isef0FPKG7K7NmBcDlIDYU0IDv0CqDdGcGK46DI4a0wDbisUCfZuCB4tnZtT/BCPVZBiOFHE1cNKORCVpp2EgUXSidN+z/RhJ4UcIcOXyjBkHVSOwi7EUUbq1X7xiQAc3g7ZtsJFZMODiS/iv8zpCdpItixUYCQj3TCfQa8sdTo= Hello,=0A=0AI think we have other packages that are in a similar situatio= n=0Aas procmail and xchat, e.g. packages which have viable=0Aalternatives= and no upstream maintenance for many years.=0APackages like these are th= e frozen lasagna sitting in your=0Afreezer for last two years: they need = to be tossed out.=0A=0AIt would be nice to make a push to remove as many = of them as=0Ais possible, so that they don't sit around bit-rotting for= =0Aanother decade.=0A=0AIf you know of any packages like that, please ope= n issues=0Arequesting their removal, so we can get as many of them out=0A= of the distribution and start this decade off with a fresh=0Aslate.=0A=0A= Thanks!=0A=0AAriadne