Hi guys,
I have a package that is not maintained by upstream anymore and I was trying to find some sort of checklist on how to best manage its end of life.
I can't find it in the documentation. Is it somewhere I missed?
Here is what I had in mind:
1. Confirm with upstream that they dropped the dev and maintenance.
2. Confirm that there's no fork with people actively working on taking over the maintenance.
3. Open bugs on all depending packaged (including those who use it as build dependencies) to have them switch to something else.
4. Open a bug for your package explaining it's end of life so that people can see it easily.
5. Once there is no more package depending on yours, ask the ftp masters to remove the package from testing and unstable via a mail to their list.
6. Wait that the package is out of old-stable to drop the git repository from Salsa. Maybe put a note in debian/NEWS when you start this whole process so that people can identify the repository more easily?
Did I miss a step? Is the process correct?
Thanks for your help,
Joseph