On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Always Learning centos@u62.u22.net wrote:
There is no current maintainer. Inevitably software may need alterations,
On Sun, 2014-03-23 at 17:43 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Inevitable - why? Bits don't just wear out. Don't break the interfaces it uses and software will just keep on working.
In my first two computer jobs characters had 9 bits; now characters have just 8. Bits do go missing :-)
What is to stop a volunteer making a version for each Centos release ? and then putting it in a public repository ? The only difficulty I foresee is lack of modern (for RHEL/Centos 8) compilation libraries.
I do not influence Red Hat's decisions. Perhaps it would help if a volunteer maintainer emerged as the new TCP Wrappers champion ?