[Mono-dev] xsp2 on debian

[Robert Jordan]

Mirco Bauer wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 09:00 -0500, Michael Schurter wrote:
>> The Debian Mono Group is doing an excellent job packaging Mono for Etch, 
>> so I have no idea why this bug has stayed open for so long.
> 
> Thats because we have nobody who can maintain actively ASP.NET related
> things.
> 
> Dylan RE Moonfire (lurfagrin) is the only maintainer that tries to keep
> XSP up, but he has not much time for it.
> 
> Maintaining software that you are not using is very difficult, we (the
> rest of the group) try to keep the XSP packages but that doesn't make it
> good packages, alternative is to drop them from Debian.

Actually it's XSP2/ASP.NET 2.0 that needs to be dropped from packages
built from the stable branch (1.1.13.*), because ASP.NET 2.0 didn't
get any updates after the release. The same applies to SWF.

Robert