Re: DOA source (hey, I have trouble with subjects)
I maintain the card game "Spider", which has not had an upstream release
in the several years that I have maintained it.
I don't think that we need drop a package for loss of upstream maintainer,
only for those cases where the Debian maintainer is not able to work on
the package.
If the package is useful and maintainable by Debian, there is no reason to
orphan it simply because the usptream "died".
Luck,
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 talein@whitestar.soark.net wrote:
> Shaleh and I had discussed this regarding chameleon -- which has not had a
> new release in 6 months or so? (correct me if I'm wrong shaleh) -- shaleh
> filled me in on this when I offered to adopt it. I emailed the upstream
> maintainer to see what was up -- and have yet to get a reply (or bounce).
> What do we do in a situation like this? -- when it appears the source has
> been orphaned? do we just remove it from the new dist (potato Id guess
> since wallp won't be in slink) or do we just leave it's most recent
> release as is?
>
> (heh: debian/dists/9.7/..../chameleon -> ../../../2.1/.../chameleon )
>
>
> lemme know -- I suppose if it's to be removed, that's fine (no point being
> a maintainer of something that no longer needs one :(
>
>
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