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On 06/18/2011 10:09 PM, Zach wrote:
> On 06/18/2011 09:52 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Robert Holtzman<holtzm at cox.net>  wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 07:07:20PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>>
>>>          ..........snip..........
>>>> Notwithstanding the Debian maintainer being AWOL,
>>> Care to expand on this? I've been trying out squeeze with the thought of
>>> switching, but that statement causes me some concern.
>> The previous poster had said "Looks like the maintainer has gone
>> missing... https://launchpad.net/~cedric-debian".
>>
>> Looking at Launchpad, it's just that he's a Debian developer and he
>> doesn't use Launchpad.
>>
>> However the last Debian upload was on July 31, 2010 and Stellarium
>> 10.6 was released in January 2011...
> I just used Stellarium as an example (btw, openSuSE had it in November 
> '10 and I still currently have the Windows build dated Dec. '10 but 
> that's not the point I'm making).  About a month ago, I tried Linux Mint 
> just for grins & giggles and although it was OK, I still prefer Ubuntu.  
> However, LM uses the same repository as Ubuntu but for some reason, I 
> received the latest version of Alien Arena which was different from the 
> Ubuntu one.  When I switched back to Ubuntu a few days later, it 
> downloaded the previous version of the game.  Again, I'm just using 
> these examples to illustrate the inconsistency (or just plain weirdness) 
> of the repositories.
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Understand. The primary issue, I think, is man/woman power. There are
only so many folks willing to step up and maintain a package. Such it
the life in the OSS lane sometimes.