Re: Unmaintained Debian packages section&BTS tags

[Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 05:20:39PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 05:19:10PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 05:58:08PM +0200, Tomas Pospisek's Mailing
> > Lists wrote:
> > > the proposal goes like this:
> > > 1) iif unmaintained && older than X1 && RC-bugs > X2 remove from debian
> > > 2) iif unmaintained && bugs > Y move to unmaintained
> > My proposal goes like this:
> Actually, this is not so much a proposal as the status quo. I haven't
> yet seen a good reason to stop.

It's not really the status-quo, no one goes to much effort at all to
removed packages from the distro entirely: have a look at the last few
entries in update_excuses sometime.

     [...]
     * zope-worldpilot (- to 1.0.4-1)
          + Maintainer: Behan Webster
          + 823 days old (needed 10 days)
          + Valid candidate   
     * mdate (- to 1.0.1-3)
          + Maintainer: Peter Crystal
          + 906 days old (needed 10 days)
          + mdate (source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips,
            mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc) is buggy! (1 > 0)
          + Not considered  
     * alsaconf-0.4 (- to 0.4.2-5)
          + Maintainer: Masato Taruishi   
          + 908 days old (needed 10 days)
          + alsaconf-0.4 (source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k,   
            mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc) is buggy! (1 > 0)
          + Not considered 

(mdate's bug is #143726, which is 149 days old, alsaconf-0.4's is #89844
at a year and 185 days old. zope-worldpilot needed to be updated for
some zope or python transition, and has never been)

Cheers,
aj

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