Re: Removing RC buggy leaf packages with low popularity?
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:48:40AM +0100, intrigeri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dominic Hargreaves wrote (27 Jan 2014 21:42:32 GMT) :
> > As has sort of become apparent from discussion about specific cases,
> > I really think we need to decide on a bit more than popcon whether to
> > remove a package. As a minimum the age of the bug, and whether someone
> > has indicated that they are likely to look at fixing the issue.
>
> > If this could be included together with the title of each bug with such
> > reports, that would be useful too.
>
> Agreed.
>
> > As such, the following might be easy candidates for removal:
> > [...]
> > I might be tempted to ping the upstream bug reports for all those
> > to see if anyone pops up with fixes (message along the lines of:
> > bugs unfixed, will removed from Debian in one week unless there is
> > evidence of fixes..)
>
> I think this is a great idea, and I'd be delighted if you did this :)
> Perhaps 2 or 3 weeks would be a bit nicer delay, though.
As a next step I've put a table on the wiki based on the info from
this thread.
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/OpenTasks#Release-critical_bugs
Dominic.
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