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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5.7
Severity: serious
User: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Usertags: proposed-orphan
Hi Michael,
While reviewing some packages with a lot of bugs, coreutils came up as a
package that should probably be orphaned by its maintainer, because:
* It has 280 open bugs, many of them unanswered, or not properly dealt
with.
* You haven't done any upload to unstable since 08/2006. coreutils has
been maintained by NMUs since then.
* The state of the package is really bad: it has been failing to build
on mips and mipself for nearly a year.
* You ignored my recent query about the state of the package[1].
I don't think that this is an acceptable state for a "required" package,
and I've heard that some people would be willing to maintain coreutils
as a team, which would probably provide much better results than the
current situation.
Please either fix the issues listed above, orphan your package, or
organize team maintainance for it. If those problems aren't solved in
50 days, I'll orphan coreutils myself, as described in [2], so a team
can take over.
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2008/01/msg00134.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/10/msg00406.html
Thank you,
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:28:49PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
* You haven't done any upload to unstable since 08/2006. coreutils has
been maintained by NMUs since then.
Yup, because I talked to Manoj and decided that was the best way to get
the SElinux stuff he wanted into etch.
* The state of the package is really bad: it has been failing to build
on mips and mipself for nearly a year.
Well, the version in experimental has built on those archs more recently
than that. Note that a number of bugs are fixed in the experimental
version.
* You ignored my recent query about the state of the package[1].
Well, I don't have any record of that email in my email box.
Mike Stone
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