Old, ignored RC bugs revisited
Of the bugs noted in my RC bug trawl two months ago:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2003/debian-qa-200310/msg00037.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2003/debian-qa-200310/msg00038.html
Some (many?) are still open and RC on packages in sarge.
That was a very conservative RC bug trawl. With a few exceptions, having
a bug on that list was a mark of derelict maintenance, and having one
still open is even more certainly so.
I recommend the following.
First, MIA maintainers whose packages should all be orphaned:
* Sebastian Gross <sjg@debian.org>
* Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com>
* Martin Albert <ma@debian.org>
* Hugo Espuny <hec@debian.org>
* Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>
* Rens Houben <shadur@debian.org>
* Chris Ruffin <cmruffin@debian.org>
* Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
* Lenart Janos <ocsi@debian.org>
I suspected these people of being MIA two months ago; now I'm pretty sure.
:-) Someone should make a last-ditch effort to contact them and ask them
if they'll voluntarily abandon their 'maintainer' status (or actually
start maintaining their packages) but I'd rather the asker was an official
Debian Developer, preferably an official QA team member.
Next, in package-alphabetical order, old bugs and additional specific
recommendations.
Most of these should be orphaned because the maintainers are obviously not
maintaining them even half-decently, though there are exceptions. Many
should be removed from testing because they are clearly unsuitable for
release and no fixes are forthcoming; others have bugs with easy fixes or
patches and should be NMUed or QA-uploaded (depending on whether they're
being orphaned or not). A few should probably be removed entirely.
* cwwm: Remove from testing. (#196133, #192987)
* cl-ftp: No recommendation, but #192007 is still open.
* discover: Orphan & QA-upload. Its current maintainer(s) are simply not
maintaining it. (#169264)
* gjdoc: move to contrib, by NMU if necessary. (#199673)
* gnokii: No recommendation, but #197597 is still open & RC.
* hostname: Orphan and QA-upload. Check whether Doogie still exists.
* jukebox-mercury: NMU (and consider orphaning) (#196470).
* kernel-patch-lpp: Remove from testing and orphan. (#185641)
* l2tpd: Remove from testing and orphan. (#198815)
See if Jean-Francois Dive really wants to be a Debian maintainer; he
seems almost MIA, but not quite.
* libdbmusic: NMU (and consider orphaning) (#186433). Madkiss is maintaining
other things, but does not seem to be on top of this package.
* libgd-perl: Remove from testing (and orphan). (#197998)
* libggi2-dev: QA-upload. (#102675)
* libgtop2: Help wanted -- if you can fix it, do (#194108)
* libxml-filter-xslt-perl: No recommendation, but #197760 is still open & RC.
* logtrend-storageserver: Remove from testing and orphan. (#195291)
See above note about Jean-Francois Dive <jef@debian.org>.
* mondo: Orphan. The maintainer seems to be maintaining some
other packages, but not this one. (#198390)
* mueller: Orphan. The maintainer seems to be maintaining some
other packages, but not this one. (#191206)
* php4-apc: Orphan. The maintainer seems to be maintaining his other packages
quite well, but not this one. (#186565)
* php4-interbase: Supposedly fixed in sid? (#167377, #181316). Investigate
the issues here. :-)
* postnuke: Remove from testing and unstable, in keeping with the comments
made about it. Note that this is a cross-site scripting vulnerability, and
the maintainer appears MIA. (#197636)
* request-tracker: Remove from testing and unstable, in keeping with
discussion on this list. (#191165)
* sgmltools-lite: Orphan, since maintainer isn't doing his job. (#168573)
* stellarium: No recommendation, apparently fixed in sid (#198495)
* syscalltrack: Was supposedly being adopted by Alastair McKinstry
(mckinstry@computer.org) -- but no progress yet. Should be removed
from testing and orphaned. (#190697)
* sysklogd: Bug should be closed or downgraded, as it has grossly inflated
severity. I suppose Joey just hasn't gotten around to it. (#199989)
* timidity: Remove from testing (and orphan). (#166869)
* tk8.0-dev: No recommendation. I pinged the bug to see if the maintainer
might have thoughts. (#195793)
* trafstats: Remove from testing and unstable; it's not buildable and
nobody seems to care.
* vlad: Remove from testing and unstable; dead upstream. Maintainer
might be MIA too, worth checking.
* vrflash: QA-upload.
* xdialog: Remove from testing or QA-upload.
* xemacs21-packages: #169891 is still open and the maintainer hasn't been
heard from in quite a while. Check to see if he's MIA?
That's it. Hope someone will do something useful with this.
Once these have been dealt with I'll start looking at ignored RC bugs
from August, maybe, in search of more MIA maintainers. ;-)
--
Nathanael Nerode <neroden at gcc.gnu.org>
http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html
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