On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 10:20:19AM -0400, David Bremner wrote: > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> writes: > > > It shouldn't be enough for a package to have its worst bugs fixed like FTBFS or > > crashes when it gets shipped with a release. Packages that are being shipped with > > a release should also be properly maintained or not shipped at all. > > For context, there are currently 929 packages maintained by > packages@qa.debian.org. That doesn't count packages that have an > inactive maintainer, which is more challenging to quantify. There were proposals for that, for example counting time and/or number of uploads since the last maintainer upload. On the other hand, there is vocal opposition in the project to calculating whether a package is working/useful/should be removed based on its maintenance status in Debian, its upload history, the history of its upstream releases and similar things. -- WBR, wRAR
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