Re: only release packages that have maintainers?
On 20-Feb-2001 Seth Arnold wrote:
> * Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@valinux.com> [010220 10:39]:
>> Anyone have comments on the idea that the only packages we should release
>> are
>> ones that have a maintainer, not Debian QA?
>
> In taking a quick list at the packages my machine knows about, it sure
> appears that Debian could still be useful if all those packages were
> thrown out.
>
> But, I am curious why you wish to do so. Is the Debian QA team getting
> tired of being the QA team? Do those packages have inordinate amounts of
> bugs compared to other packages?
>
they are usually 2.x policy, not 3.x. A very small number of people are
working on them, etc.
Plus as others have said, if no one cares, the package should not be here.
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