Re: Idea for maintaining packages up for adoption

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:

>> I think that if we had active users of a package who would report the
>> bugs when they happen, orphaned packages wouldn't be as much of a risk.
>> They have undetected RC bugs not because there isn't a maintainer so
>> much as because there are no users reporting those bugs into the BTS.

> I agree, but I don't see any way to guarantee that orphaned packages
> have users that are engaged on this level.

I don't think there's any way to guarantee it, but I think we can turn it
around and look at it as a useful input to the decision on when to remove
an orphaned package.  If a package has users who are active bug reporters,
I would be less inclined to remove it than a package whose users don't use
reportbug.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>