Re: Fixed release dates are hurting quality
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.
Orphaned packages are nowhere as bad -- you can fix anything.
It's packages that are nominally maintained which see no updates but for RC
bugs.
Meow!
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