Re: Unmaintained Packages (was: Getting patches into packages, thought and ideas)
Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> writes:
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:52 +0100, Andrew Suffield
> <asuffield@debian.org> wrote:
> >On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 08:50:36PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >> And don't tell me glibc is unmaintained or ppp.
> >
> >ppp *was* unmaintained, for a long period of time.
>
> When exactly is a package (take ifupdown for example which hasn't seen
> a maintainer upload in a long time) to be considered unmaintained?
If a package has bugs for some time without the maintainer giving
reasons why they are left open its unmaintained or at least badly
maintained. Having bugs fixed in NMUs is also a sign of an
unmaintained package.
ifupdown surely looks bad.
MfG
Goswin
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