Re: plans on orphaning / removing packages not in testing
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 06:42:32PM +0200, Adeodato Sim? wrote:
> * Matthew Palmer [Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:12:22 +1000]:
> > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:28:04PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>
> > > I wish more people had an attitude like this. Maybe it would make
> > > sense to ask people on d-d-a to review their own new packages and
> > > consider whether it makes sense to release them, but I doubt many
> > > people would be as honest[*] as you.
>
> > I'd write the e-mail something along these lines:
>
> > Release is coming [blah blah blah]
>
> > We ask that everyone objectively consider whether their own packages are in
> > a fit state for release. Reasons for not releasing them include:
>
> then do not many orphaned packages (if not most) fit into one of the
> proposed resons and should be removed from testing?
Yep.
> I think many packages could benefite from this in-the-middle approach:
> instead of completely removing them from debian or letting them get
> released with stable, they just stay in unstable and never migrate.
>
> it would not be keeping them "just for the shake of keeping them"
> either. it would be keeping those that may be of some interest for
> some users, but which don't qualify as release quality and are not
> being maintained at all (except for sporadic QA uploads).
I'd support that proposal. I think Debian has enough maintainers (not to
mention random software) that keeping a package out of a stable release if
they don't have a maintainer is potentially a workable idea. We could even
file a generic "No Maintainer" serious bug on orphaned packages to keep them
out of transition...
- Matt
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