Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote: > > According to the Popularity Contest [1] it has some (even though not many) > users (but not every user is a developer who can adopt the package). Anyone can join Debian. > No! Why should we remove packages only because noone is adopting them? To encourage interested parties to adopt and maintain them, of course. I agree with Marcelo (?) that Debian should have no orphaned packages. A package without a reponsible party maintaining it is a liability, not a benefit. > This doesn't mean that this package has no users. I adopted many packages > to avoid that they get removed (and I sent RFAs immediately after adopting > them) and I got mails of several users that were happy that a package they > are using wasn't removed (and many of these packages already have new > maintainers). If they have new maintainers, then there is no need for you to have adopted them in the first place. -- Sam Couter | Internet Engineer | http://www.topic.com.au/ sam@topic.com.au | tSA Consulting | OpenPGP key ID: DE89C75C, available on key servers OpenPGP fingerprint: A46B 9BB5 3148 7BEA 1F05 5BD5 8530 03AE DE89 C75C
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