On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 10:25:26AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > To me, the rewards of keeping the orphaned packages clearly outweigh the > risks. If the package is actually broken, presumably sooner or later > someone will notice and report that as a bug, and we can then take > appropriate action. > > The exception, I suppose, is that we probably shouldn't keep shipping > packages that are orphaned and that no one is using, just on clutter > grounds, but that seems like a smaller problem that would be > better-handled by other mechanisms than a blanket rule for unmaintained > packages. There are also other, though I think rare, considerations, like security problems.
-- WBR, wRAR
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