Am 31.01.2018 um 20:14 schrieb Andrej Shadura: > Hi everyone, > > It has happened to me in the recent years quite a few times that a > package which I was using has a RoQA bug filed against it, and the > package's got removed at a very short notice. > > For example, in #616376, gbdfed was removed because "low popcon, > orphaned". It took just one day to remove it, with no discussion at all. > Orphaned is *not* a bug. Orphaned doesn't mean the package has no users. > Maybe the package works for them just fine, and they're happy. Should > I've known someone's going to remove it, I would have adopted it earlier. > > Today, hyde. I worked on a new release of the package in July, leaving a > couple of things to be polished when I find more time. Today, I needed > to use the package, so I thought, oh, let me adopt and upload the > package. Here you go, there's #871004 for you. Missed jessie, stretch, > not in testing, no uploads since the beginning of 2017. Filed on 06 Aug > 2017, removed 10 Sep 2017. Fair enough, the notice was on display for a > whole month. In a place resembling a locked filing cabinet stuck in a > disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’. > > Well, I'm a DD, so it's not a big deal for me to re-upload it, wait for > a couple hundred years^W hours for it to go through NEW, but… > Should we maybe give it *a bit* more visibility? Let RoQA bugs hang > around for *at least* a month, maybe post notification emails every > fortnight so that they can be noticed? Encourage newcomers to pick them > up? Prodding DDs who's last reported bugs against the package to maybe > pick it up? > > Feel free to tell me I'm wrong and don't understand something, but if > you do, please explain me how and why :) I think we should remove cruft more aggressively then we currently do. We are much too lenient with what we ship in our stable releases. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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