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Re: Work-needing packages report for Sep 6, 2002



On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 03:18:38PM +0200, tomas p wrote:
> I understand. Which brings me back to the proposition I made before.
> Wouldn't it be better to just have some kind of way to _tag_
> unmaintained packages, so that f.ex. QA can look at the package and
> then just decide: "this is not an important package, we'll not bother
> with it" and leave in unstable without paying any more attention to
> it. Similary for Junichi Uekawa who could just say: "I'm not building
> unmaintained packages".

I think we're trying to build a quality distribution, not just a pile of
stuff. I'd rather see a package be removed than stop maintaining it even
in QA.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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