Re: Orphaned packages with very low popcon numbers
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Thomas Viehmann <tv@beamnet.de> writes:
>
>> I'd prefer Debian releases to consist of properly supported packages as
>> much as possible. It's not as if we want to forcibly delete the packages
>> from our user's machines, we'd just acknowledge that they aren't
>> maintained anymore.
>
> Me too, but I wonder if we are actually achieving that goal.
>
> Consider a package which is in this category. Right now it gets some
> level of maintenance; it gets bugfixes for RC bugs at least, and other
> such things happen. It gets security updates as we know about them,
> and so forth.
Actually, it doesn't. :-P It's a nice dream, but with hundreds of
QA-maintained packages, these nearly-unused ones mostly do not get even
basic maintenance.
> If it gets dropped entirely, then the user doesn't get any notice of
> that fact; their system just keeps on going as before.
Until they run dselect and it shows up as a "local/obsolete" package: that's
how I generally get notice of dropped packages. I don't know what other
frontends do, but they ought to do something similar.
> Except that
> the package now gets *no* updates instead of minimal ones.
>
> Thomas
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