* Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> [250421 03:07]:
Let's rather talk about what Debian should officially support, and how Josh Triplett plans to implement it.I would be more than happy to work on it, in collaboration with others proposing such changes. I expect that such work consists of 10% doing careful archive-wide scans to detect usage of packages, 10% writing tooling, 5% writing relatively small patches,
and 75% discussion threads having to defend the value of such work from people who have no interest in working on it themselves but spend a lot of energy telling other people it's a waste of time.
This part seems a problem indeed.Nevertheless, the people that are interested do exist. I also observe that various current efforts in Debian work towards making this easier, even if they start with a different proposition / cause.
I would suggest you hit up some of the current maintainers of Essential: yes packages, and leave the naysayers on d-devel to themselves.
Chris