Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> (02/08/2009): > This seems to be a recurring proposal. I raised it 1 year ago (IIRC, > sorry I'm too lazy right now to look the reference) and Raphael > Hertzog pointed out to me that way before he advanced the same > proposal. Sorry for that, missed it/them. > The counter-argument I received 1 year ago is that we do not want to > make any easier to "maintain" orphaned packages, e.g., via QA uploads. > While I somehow understand that point of view, I still consider the > proposal a good idea, mainly because it technically facilitates > resurrecting the packages for the future maintainer. Well, orphaning something because one is running out of time, and because some packages need a lot of attention is I guess a valid situation (hint: see the blender thread on dd@). I would personally hate that someone has to start the packaging and the patching from scratch. Anyway, it's probably too hot a topic for me. I guess I'll just shut up. Mraw, KiBi.
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