> 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.
Yes, the emails will bounce in this case, the email server that used to
be at that address no longer exists. I have written to several
maintainers privately in the past, so I have a general idea of how this
works.
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