Re: Work-needing packages report for May 25, 2001
Sam Couter <sam@topic.com.au> wrote:
>How long do orphaned packages survive? I ask because no one seems to want
>debauch, it's been orphaned for a long time, and there are better
>alternatives available.
>
>Should bugs be filed against ftp@debian.org to remove packages that have
>been orphaned longer than some number of days? I believe this has been done
>in the past as a once-off type of thing, but should it become an automatic
>thing with each mailout of the wnpp report?
It shouldn't be automatic. Take silo, for instance, which was orphaned
for a long time; removing that automatically would have been bad for the
sparc port. However, if you feel like using the automatic report as a
guideline for which packages we should think of removing, feel free.
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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