On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 02:01:44PM -0500, christophe barb? wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 07:45:02PM +0100, Sander Smeenk wrote: > > I would say drop the package, but then again, the popularity contest > > shows 27 people use micq on a regular basis, 77 have the pkg installed > > but don't use it that often, and 7 have installed/upgraded too recently > > for stats to be known. > > By curiosity, I would be interesting to know how do you get this stats? > What iss the 'popularity contest' ? > apt-get install popularity-contest http://www.debian.org/~apenwarr/popcon/ is where the results are tabulated. > Another question: Is there a kind of timeout to automatically drop > O-packages ? > Not really. It tends to become maintained by debain QA. If it is there a long time, seems that nobody uses it, or that it has lots of release critical bugs that nobody cares about then it might be removed. We sort of usually hope that someone will come along and pick it up at some point. Our users deserve package not to disappear on them IMO. Cheers, Stephen
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