Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

[Rich Walker <rw@shadow.org.uk>]

Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> writes:

> While many bugs are a reason to remove a package quickly, no bugs
> aren't a reason to keep it forever. The Debian QA group maintains
> packages that are orphaned to give other maintainers the chance
> to adopt it without too much hassle, and as a service to those
> that use them. But this has to be only a temporary solution.

Point taken.

cheers, Rich.


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