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Re: Removing RC buggy leaf packages with low popularity?



On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:14:15 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:

> > >    libnet-irc-perl [popcon: 386]
> > IIRC, this RC bug is a bit controversial -- Axel?
> Yeah, I consider it a well working module with no issues in Debian at
> all except that someone who claims to be upstream considers it
> deprecated. (Or said otherwise: I think http://bugs.debian.org/608583
> is close to irrelevant if the package has that much popcon but no
> bug-reports for years now.)

I'm completely fine with lowering the severity of this bug.
Any strong objections?
 
> > > Do we want to remove the packages with popcon < N from the archive?
> > > How about N=50 or 100?
> > After looking at the list, N=50 sounds like a nice cutoff to me.
> I agree, despite I wouldn't use that as a general threshold. It's just
> nice for this particular list as there's a big gap between 92 and 38.

Ack, that's how I came to this value :)

Cheers,
gregor

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