Hi Bernd, On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 02:16:23PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > as described in Message-ID: <[🔎] 20201231124509.GB3305@layer-acht.org> > > or http://layer-acht.org/thinking/blog/20201231-no-source-change-source-uploads/ > > I plan to do 3000 NMUs soon. > Thanks for your work! thanks! > Although the high number of packages makes me wonder, if at least a > quick MIA check of the maintainers is warranted, or - if those packages > are needed in bullseye at all. > Of course, there are some packages which are working just fine with the > same source for years, but at least some debhelper/compat or policy > check and upload at some point makes sense. > > I think Debian should sometimes be better and faster in removing > unmaintained stuff. while I agree in principle I have to say that in practice it's not doable for me, uploading 3000 packages doing just the basic checks that I do is a major task already, if I add any other QA measure which requieres human consideration (like removal) it becomes a much much bigger task, deluting my original goal of fixing the issue of missing .buildinfo files. Even just running lintian-brush would at least double the amount, though I believe the impact would be even higher. that said, I filed a bug to get src:embedian-archive-keyring removed from sid and then bullseye. That was one striking example I found going through those first 570 packages... -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ PGP fingerprint: B8BF 5413 7B09 D35C F026 FE9D 091A B856 069A AA1C ⠈⠳⣄ There are no jobs on a dead planet. (Also many other things but people mostly seem to care about jobs.)
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