Re: last change to save (adopt) some packages
"Nathanael Nerode" <neroden@not.real.address.com> writes:
> Thomas Bushnell wrote:
>>This is not the correct way to orphan a package.
>
> True. However, it is entirely legitimate for a maintainer to decide that a
> package is worthless and withdraw it, which is what Andres Salomon is
> planning to do. In fact, it's a kindness to the QA volunteers.
Yes, but this is not true for some of the packages which Andres
mentioned. Some of them simply lack ongoing upstream support, which
is not the same thing as "worthless".
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