Hi all, Today I was, once again, surprised to see how many (low popcon) orphaned packages we have. I believe that orphanage is a burden to our community in the sense that not all packages are picked up by a new maintainer and these packages need some QA once in a while and often don't get enough of that (at least most packages that I touched). To keep the archive in a sane state, I was wondering if we shouldn't ask maintainers that want/need to get rid of their packages to actively consider if removal from Debian isn't a better option than orphaning (taking into account the state of the package, the profile and the users (both known and unknown by popcon)). The current maintainer is probably in a way better position to judge this than later QA people in the case where the package isn't adopted. I suggest that everybody that orphans a package makes a statement in the wnpp bug report on why (s)he believes orphaning is better than removal. If people agree with my idea here, I'll suggest a change to the reportbug template for orphaning bugs. Paul
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