On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 08:02:43AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > > + If the maintainer of a package no longer has time or desire to > > + maintain a package, it will be orphaned according to the > > + procedure described in the Debian Developer's Reference > > + (see <ref id="related">). The maintainer then > "It will" makes it sound like that the former maintainer has nothing to > do. "It should" would be more appropriate IMO. But "should" is a magic, normative verb in policy, so I avoided using it here even though it's the natural choice... :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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