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Re: Removing unmaintained scripts

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 12, 2012, 21:41 UTC
Message-ID
<20120312214139.GA11362@burratino>
In-Reply-To
<m38vj5zeo5.fsf_-_@localhost.localdomain>
Jakub Narebski wrote:
> A'propos, there is git-archimport script, last modified (as an
> individual script) in 2007.  Is anyone using GNU arch nowadays;
> isn't arch-fast-export better solution anyway?

According to [1] (see the green line), it still has some users, or at least people who access the file now and then. ;-) As long as the script works, why would we want to cause them trouble?

For comparison, here's the corresponding graph for people using GNU arch[2] and participating in the same survey.

Hope that helps, Jonathan

[1] http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=git-arch
    http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=git-core
[2] http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=tla
    http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=tla
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