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Re: Two thougts about testing



Joerg Friedrich <Joerg.Dieter.Friedrich@uni-konstanz.de> writes:

> 1. The number of packages
>    Debian never stopped growing, and there are packages which are
>    unmaintained but they are still in the archive. 
>    Hey, if noone is willing to maintain a package, wait a grace period
>    (30 days) and remove it from unstable and testing. If somone needs
>    it, he could step forward and maintain it. 

The QA team already works on this kind of thing it dealing with MIA
maintainers.  Packages can and do get removed from unstable because
they are not being maintained and their maintainers have apparently
vanished, and then they automatically get dropped from testing too.

Thomas



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