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Bug#327665: marked as done (O: elvis-tiny -- Tiny vi compatible editor for the base system)

Your message dated Fri, 17 Mar 2006 03:19:39 +1000
with message-id <20060316171939.GJ28363@daedalus.andrew.net.au>
and subject line Is elvis-tiny orphaned or not?
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Package: elvis-tiny
Version: 1.4-18
Severity: serious

Hi.

During the Debian QA meeting hold during Sept. 09th till 11th, we
begun to go through the list of the oldest packages in Debian that are
not in testing (http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/oldest.html) to
search for packages that should be either orphaned or removed
completly from Debian (unstable and testing) since they have been
obviously neglected by their maintainer.

Your package did show up on this list and we propose to orphan the package.

This usually means that your package matched some of the following criteria:

      [1] Your packages has not had an upload for more than two years

      [2] has one or more RC bugs with no answer from the maintainer (**)

      [3] the state of your packages in general seems to indicate that
      you might be MIA

      [4] (if we propose a removal) it shows in popcon as having less
          than 100 users with the package installed.

      [5] the package was not released with sarge

and at least ([1] and ( [2] or [3] or [4] or [5] )) was true.

(**) The maintainer not answering to RC bugs refers to bugs filed more
than one month before the time the check was performed.

In your case the package is older than 3 years and you didn't answer to
the gcc4 related bug (which is now RC) for over a year.

After 7 days without answer from you (the maintainer) we will reassign
this bug to either WNPP (in case we propose to orphan it) or
ftp.debian.org (in case we propose to remove it).

The package will need an upload or an explanation for this action not
to proceed.

Please do *not* upload a package just to get off this list - it won't
help the package at all. Maintainers should be responsive and feel
responsible for their packages without needing other people to force
them to do work. Sometimes, finding a new maintainer or even removing
the package completly from the archive is better for Debian's users.

Thanks!
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>

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On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 05:50:30PM +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 02:39 +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> > Hi Miquel,
> > 
> > Technically (#327665) elvis-tiny is orphaned. I even made a QA upload
> > setting the maintainer appropriately, back on 2005-10-04. You subsequently
> > made an upload on 2005-11-29, which for all I can tell, reverted that
> > upload, as the maintainer field is set back to yourself.
> > 
> > Before I go and make another QA upload, as the package is listed at
> > http://qa.debian.org/orphaned.html, I wanted to check with you to determine
> > if the package really is orphaned in your eyes or not.
> 
> I don't have that much time to actively maintain larger packages like
> sysvinit or nis, that's why those packages are co-maintained, or moved
> to alioth, etc.. but I'd like to keep one or two smaller packages.
> 
> Currently those are elvis-tiny and liblockfile. Both packages are
> "finished software", there will not be a new upstream version, so
> maintenance is very simple.
> 
> So I'd like to stay maintainer of those. However I don't have time right
> now to attend to them - I'm about to go offline for about two weeks. So
> if it's urgent, an NMU will be fine.

Okay, based on this I will close the WNPP bug that indicates that elvis-tiny
is orphaned.

regards

Andrew

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