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Re: Handling of poorly maintained and useless packages



Lucas Nussbaum schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> 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 whole heartedly agree with your proposal.

> - For packages where orphaning was proposed: 50 days
> - For packages where removal was proposed: 100 days

As sune suggested, 1 and 2 months would be enough imo.

Additionaly maybe extending the wnpp packages report with packages that
are going to be removed would give interested people a last chance to
pick such a package up.

Cheers,
Michael

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