On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:23:35AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> >One low-tech thing that one could do is just put, in the package long
> >description, a note that the software is dead upstream. Personally, I
> >think that's often information worthy of being in the long description;
> >one purpose of the long description, after all, is to provide help to a
> >user trying to pick between multiple packages that may solve their
> >problem.
>
> I agree that we could do this as well, but IMHO I do not think that
> we could expect this to happen soon in those packages who really
> deserve this information. These packages tend to have a low upload
> frequency and low attendance of the maintainer. They are hard to
> detect to start a MBF effort. So even if I agree that the low-tech
> suggestion makes sense I have doubts that it is easy to realise.
Other ways to mark packages "dead upstream" have emerged during the
"Supporting 15.000 packages" during DebConf 7. [1]
One of the idea was to use DebTags to do so, which would enable
easy automatic processing of such packages. See #436161 [2] for an
implementation.
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2007/06/msg00029.html
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=436161
Cheers,
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