On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 01:14:42PM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote:
>...
> To add a few criteria, I'd remove a package from sid only if it
>...
> * has been orphaned for a longer time, say: a year
> So again users of that package had a grace period to ask for work on
> that package.
>...
Two questions:
1. Whom and how should a user ask?
2. How would a user even notice that a package that is important for
him has been orphaned?
The majority of Debian users are running stable,
and upgrade to a new stable every 2 years.
Example for the packages we are talking about:
ispell-lt (#704968)
Orphaned for 3.5 years, no open bugs.
This is a package with relatively low popcon that is not being adopted,
both for an obvious reason (Lithuania is a small country).
There are likely *users* for whom this package is important, but the
number of *developers* who did a package upload in 2016[1] and speak
Lithuanian might be zero.
> Christoph
cu
Adrian
[1] any package, as definition of "active developer"
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