Bug#681833: developers-reference: please document a package salvaging process
Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org> writes:
> Interesting condition. According to Developers Reference 5.9.4,
> orphaning is a process that is only supposed to be initiated by the
> existing maintainer.
Orphaning is also done by the QA team, and it's frequently been done by
other people after discussion in debian-devel provided that the same sorts
of checks have been done. (Membership in the QA team is not well-defined,
so to some extent that's the same thing.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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