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Re: Handling of poorly maintained and useless packages



Le vendredi 12 octobre 2007 à 09:13 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit :
> This mail tries to address the problem of not orphaned, poorly maintained
> or useless packages in Debian. The proposal below tries to address both
> cases, because they are often related. (useless packages tend to be poorly
> maintained, and vice-versa).

I couldn't agree more. Such a process can only improve the quality of
Debian as a whole.

> Some additional info might also be useful:
> - age of last upload
> - WNPP status (O, RFH, RFA) (for how long?)
> - Maintainer's MIA status
> - number of packages maintained by the maintainer
> - number of maintainers for the package
> - is the package team maintained?

- are there better maintained packages with similar functionality?

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