Re: very old orphaned packages
Hi Thomas!
You wrote:
> http://qa.debian.org/documentation/qa.html/ch-rules.html
>
> This says that for packages with Priority: lower than standard, after
> a package has been orphaned for three months, it's moved from the main
> archive to the "project/orphaned" directory. And, after another year,
> they get withdrawn entirely from the distribution and the FTP site.
> Are we doing this?
Yes, but not in a structural way, and only for packages with RC bugs
that are not easily fixed and/or packages that are obsolete.
> Should we be doing this?
Yes, that's another thing that that script I'm working on, will check
for.
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Kind regards,
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| Bas Zoetekouw | Si l'on sait exactement ce |
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| zoetekw@phys.uu.nl | bon le faire? |
| bas@A-Es2.uu.nl | Pablo Picasso |
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