Hi Sean, On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 11:28:13AM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: > > I hope that this alleviates your concerns about the autoremoval method > > and lets us focus on the suggested removal. > > It does, thank you.
Great! > I note that cycle-quotes has actually been orphaned for four years -- > see #904238. So I think you can decide to remove it on your own. > > (I think this suggests your script should look at wnpp bugs which > haven't seen uploads to update metadata, to save you some work.) I intentionally do not consider the orphaned status as a criterion. There are a number of well-maintained and yet orphaned packages. I am using the orphaned status myself to ease collaboration on some packages while still caring for them and the fact that you replied to this bug here indicates that you also somewhat care about cycle-quotes. So the last successful build of cycle-quotes was in 2020. Do you see yourself working on the FTBFS anytime soon? If not, I suggest raising the severity of the pre-removal bug to RC again (using the old semantics) and giving everyone else a chance to fix it before proceeding to remove it in a month. Helmut
