On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 12:23:17PM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > I would suggest to come up with some algorithm to determine if a package is > effectively unmaintained, and implement it in an automatic way that gives > maintainers prior notice and a chance to react, like we do with auto-removals. > Then if nothing happens in a reasonable time frame, the package gets orphaned. > > I think we should also have an auto-removals-from-sid[1] (the crowd applauded > when I mentioned that in my Debconf talk), which would solve/help your high > number of orphaned packages. > [1] With a *very* conservative criteria. We don't want to remove a package > from > the archive after 30 days because of 1 RC bug. every word fully seconded, those are two very nice ideas, I hope to applaud their implementations soon :)
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cheers,
Holger
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