Re: a question for all the candidates, but particularly Anthony Towns

[Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> wrote:

> The Developer's Reference Manual, in section 5.9.4 says you "need" to
> orphan a package "if you can no longer maintain" it.  (It does not
> merely say that you should do so, or that you might want to.)  Do we
> need a procedure to deal with cases like this?  Should the QA team
> simply go ahead and devise one, as it did with the MIA problem?

Yes. It's important that the quality of packages is maintained, even if
the maintainer is failing to do so. If the QA team came up with a
process for dealing with this problem, then I'd probably wholeheartedly
endorse it.

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