Re: RFC: moving packages to project/orphaned

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:

> Hi,

Hi Marcelo,

>...
>  Regarding the severity of the ftp.debian.org bug: important.
>  Rationale: in the general case, packages that managed to get to this
>  state are non-interesting (otherwise they would have been adopted
>  already).  That means it's a non maintained package which noone cares
>  about, which in turn means bugreports won't get answered to.  IMO,
>  they *should* be removed before release.  Counter-arguments for the
>  general case are welcomed.

Orphaned packages list debian-qa as maintainer. That means all bug reports
go to debian-qa. There are several people that take care of these packages
and try to fix bugs (e.g. the recent security problems in ntop).

When you say these packages are non-interesting: There's noone who wants
to maintain them at the moment. Does this mean that there are no users of
these packages?

>  Thanks,
> 
> 
>                                 Marcelo

cu,
Adrian

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A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a
"Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
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