Re: A Round of Removals (addendum)
jmarant@nerim.net (Jérôme Marant) writes:
> tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
>
> > jmarant@nerim.net (Jérôme Marant) writes:
> >
> >> I don't care for unmaintained packages, noone would complain about
> >> them being removed. I do care for packages which cannot be fixed
> >> by anyone but upstream.
> >
> > It's free software, for goodness sake. That means it can be fixed by
> > anyone with the ability. If upstream is not responsive to a release
> > critical bug, then the next step for a Debian maintainer should be to
> > either fix the bug himself or solicit the help of other people in
> > doing so.
>
> You learnt your lesson pretty well. However, it does not always
> happen like that in real life.
> You have to look at each package one after one and make a decision
> with respect to some criteria for each one.
Huh? I don't know what you mean.
Are you describing what the release manager should do? He does go
through one by one.
Are you saying that you can't fix the bug, that you won't fix the bug,
that you won't ask for help, or what?
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