I will do a proper orphan of a bunch of packages soon, as I am completely our of time. But in the meanwhile take this mail as an orphan bug report in wnpp.
Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience.
And merry Xmas.
Hi Andrew,
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 09:37:02PM -0500, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote:
> > While reviewing some packages, your package came up as a package that
> > should maybe be orphaned by its maintainer, because:
> > * Out of date with upstream.
> > * Buggy. (1 RC bug).
> > * NPOASR. (Never part of a stable release).
> > * Low popcon.
> > If you think that it should be removed from Debian instead of being
> > orphaned, please reply to this bug and tell so.
> > If you disagree and want to continue to maintain this package, please
> > close this bug and do an upload also fixing the other issues.
> I just came across this package. It's been three years since this bug
> was reported with no response from the maintainer. Nor have there been
> any maintainer uploads of the package in this time. There are also
> unanswered bugs that are even older than this. Though the maintainer
> is not completely MIA. He has uploaded other packages within the last
> year. [1]
The package is no longer RC-buggy and /has/ been part of a stable release,
though this is only because of the action of NMUers. I've added them to Cc:
Mehdi, Bastian, do you have any personal interest in the dogtail package,
and opinion on whether it should be orphaned? If it were orphaned, would
either of you be interested in adopting it?
I certainly don't think low popcon is an argument for orphaning the package
- it might be an argument for removing the package, but isn't a very strong
one by itself. Likewise, unanswered non-RC bugs are not by themselves a
reason for orphaning a package. However, there's also bug #585287 which has
gone unanswered and may actually be a serious issue in the package.
José Carlos, are you still interested in maintaining dogtail? You haven't
uploaded it in 6 years, and it does seem to be in need of attention.
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