Re: Dead packages bugs
[please cc: replies to me, i'm not on -policy list]
[although i don't know why this isn't on -devel instead]
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 08:57:54PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
> > > close 9362
> > Bug#9362: gopherd: missing /etc/gopherd.conf
> > Bug closed, ack sent to submitter - they'd better know why !
> etc.
>
> [As an aside, please use nnn-done@bugs.debian.org rather than control's
> "close" command, so that submitters receive an explanation]
Okay, but it is fairly obvious why that kind of bug is closed.
> 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.
>
> I go over the list once in a while to assign bugs to existing packages where
> applicable, but haven't close bugs for dead packages.
>
> Closing them appeals to my sense of tidyness, but keeping them open makes
> them available for future maintainers to pick up.
>
> I'd like to see discussion on whether or not to keep them open. Opinions?
I didn't (at least I hope I didn't) close any bugs for packages that
are still in the project/orphaned directory, only for those that I
couldn't find any trace of. I presumed that they were once included
in Debian, but since then long orphaned (and the date of the bug says
a lot).
There was one exception, a package that had two files in project/orphaned,
but not the complete source (I think it was the upstream source archive
that was missing). I closed that bug, too, since the chances we find the
source are minimal, even if someone would like to repackage the program.
I also think that we should first resolve more important BTS problems,
like finding a good way to import non-US packages' maintainers entries
into the BTS. That information is not in any way subject to crypto/patent
laws, so only thing that needs to be done is a few lines of code that
would merge the two databases. I don't know whether this has been reported
as a bug against bugs.debian.org pseudo package, it should be.
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