Re: Policy regarding ancient/orphaned packages
On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> Should we drop ancient/orphaned packages from our "distribution"
> and move them to some other directory in the archive?
Yes.
It has been discusses a while ago...
> However, there is long list of unmaintained packages:
>
> ancient packages (old package format): 16
> orphaned packages: 90
Only 16old package format? My list count (2weeks ago) shown about 80...
> That's why I suggest the following policy:
>
> Packages without a maintainer ("orphaned packages") or packages which
> are very old will be moved into the "project/orphaned" directory.
That's why we asked Guy to create this directory some time ago. However
few packages landed there mostly because I haven't had much time to take
care of it (blame me)[*].
The ignitial proposal was to move there on a monthly basis packages
declared orphans since 3 months as long as no other packages from 'main'
depend on it. Overwise the package either remains maintained by the QA
team if it's priority is 'required' or 'standard'. If not, the orphaned
package as well as packages which depends on it are "discarded" into the
section "project/orphan".
Some packages definatly need to be moved there before the next freeze.
(Do you have a list to submit already?)
> In summary: We currently have a mechanism of how to introduce new packages
> but we should also have a "process" of how to get rid of (unmaintained
> useless) packages.
See above. _(;
Cordialement,
[*]: In a short while, I should have a computer at home, so I'll be able
to catch up on my TODO list...
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