Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 29 May 2003 20:08:31 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [announce] procps 2.0.13 with NPTL enhancements |
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On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 07:25:03PM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > > --from the http://procps.sourceforge.net/faq.html -- > Why are there so many procps projects? > > The original maintainer seems to have had little time for procps. > Whatever his reasons, the project didn't get maintained. Starting > in 1997, Albert Cahalan wrote a new ps program for the package. > For the next few years, Albert quietly helped the Debian package > maintainer fix bugs. In 2001, Rik van Riel decided to do something > about what appeared to be the lack of a maintainer. He picked up > the buggy old code in Red Hat's CVS and started adding patches. > Meanwhile, other people have patched procps in a great many ways. > In 2002, Albert moved procps to this site. This was done to ensure > that years of testing and bug fixes would not be lost. The major > version number was changed to 3, partly to avoid confusing users > and partly because the top program has been redone. > --end-- > > I think too that is to waste the time&resources to have two, > and to do a little different some LiNUX distributions in a basic > and important package > > but if both have freetime... ;-)
Well, since I read Albert Cahalan's comment in Debian bug #172735 [1] I understand the people maintaining a different branch...
> regards,
cu Adrian
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/172735
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