On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 02:14:40PM +0000, Bill Allombert wrote: > > [1] The same happen for unmaintained packages: the hurdle for taking > them over is so high most maintainers do not bother. Consider that I > have hijacked most of my current packages so I know something about > that. There are "maintainers" that never made a single upload of the > package, the last upload being 3 years old, but will not even let you do > an NMU to fix trivial-to-fix but painful bugs. > Perhaps it is worth spelling out in policy that if package has bugs filed against it and there is no activity for x days (180 or 365 seem good), the package *will* be orphaned from you. Of course, extenuating circumstances could exist. However the number of packages *with* bug activity that can legitimately go six months or a year without updating or at least replying to the bugs is *extremely* small. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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