Re: Dead packages bugs

[shaleh@clifford.livenet.net]

> 
> [As an aside, please use nnn-done@bugs.debian.org rather than control's
> "close" command, so that submitters receive an explanation]
> 

Does Guy's hack to dpkg-dev do this? I close most of my bugs via my changelog.

> A large fraction of the "Maintainer Unknown" bug reports
> (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/ma/l-28_unknown-29_.html) are about packages
> that are no longer in Debian. I'm not sure there is concensus about closing
> them. 
> 
> Closing them appeals to my sense of tidyness, but keeping them open makes
> them available for future maintainers to pick up.
> 

It would be nice to make the BTS more aware of the archive.  That way "dead"
packages are noted as "not closed, but not really valid".

I agree with leaving them so later developers might choose to pick them up and
close them.  But others (like libc4) should just be trashed.