Re: Can we orphan dlocate?
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Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:45:58PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
>> The maintainer appears to have lost interest in the package (last upload 1999).
>> It's also his only package; he is probably MIA. (I seem to remember him being
>> very angry about Debian's decision to apply the Social Contract and DFSG to all
>> of Debian, and particularly at me for advocating it, so he may have left
>> Debian deliberately.)
>
> No, he has not.
>
>> Given the various NMUs I suspect that this one would be picked up quite quickly,
>> but I'm sure nobody wants to step on the maintainer's toes....
>
>> Given the presence of bugs as old as seven years, it clearly needs a new
>> maintainer.
>
> Just like all the other 10-year-old packages that have 7-year-old bugs?
I'm getting very tired of those 7-year-old bugs. It's not healthy.
> If
> the package doesn't have any RC problems, why should it be orphaned just
> because there are some older bugs? If anything, this looks to me like a
> veiled attempt to remove the package from the archive, disguised as an
> orphaning, since I don't imagine there are a great number of people
> clamouring to adopt it afterwards.
Absolutely the opposite; this might have been described as a veiled
attempt to hijack the package, disguised as an orphaning. ;-) There
would be clamor to adopt it, and I'd be there. I think a lot of people
would like to get this into better shape. If Craig's still active and
hoping to upload in June, that's great and no worries.
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