Friday, February 28, 2025

Re: [wip update] x11/lumina 1.4.0-p1 -> 1.6.2

On 2025/02/28 20:53, Theo Buehler wrote:
> I have no opinion whether it makes sense to spend time on updating this
> DE that was long abandoned by upstream. IIRC someone suggested to remove
> it a few years back.
>
> > This is an instance where the package maintainer has completely
> > abandoned the port
>
> Be that as it may: if a port has a maintainer, please Cc them whenever
> you send a diff. You can simply ask them if they still want to be
> maintainer. You might even get a reply indicating why they preferred not
> to update the old version. If you don't get an answer or the mail
> bounces you then have a good reason to remove them.
>

...and certainly don't send a diff removing somebody as maintainer if
they haven't requested it without discussing it first.

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