Re: WNPP now on the BTS

[ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler)]

Anthony Towns wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:28:22AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> >  The tags to be used and corresponding severities would be:
> >      O    important  The package has been Orphaned.  It needs a new
> >                      maintainer as soon as possible.  If the package
> >                      as a Priority of standard, required or essential,
> >                      the severity should be set to grave.
> 
> What do you mean by "orphaned" here? The Maintainer field has been
> set to "debian-qa@lists.debian.org"? Or that it should be moved to
> project/orphaned?

What is the correct way to orphan a package now?
Uploading with maintainer set to debian-qa@lists.debian.org *and*
filing a bug against wnpp or only one of these actions?

  Ulf

P.S.: BTW, Anthony, you should trim the mail that you are citing, and not
      resend the whole thing. Apart from saving bandwidth and storage room
      it 'll be easier to find your remarks...