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Author Re: orphaned packages
Russ Allbery

2004-08-02, 8:48 pm

Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:

> Would you mind following up to the wnpp bug with this information, and
> cc: debian-qa on the message, so that someone can start the process of
> getting it removed from the archive?


Absolutely. I'll go do that now.

> FWIW, I don't think that removing orphaned packages from the archive is
> something that should be done automatically; but I do think we have a
> responsibility to phase out packages when we no longer believe it's in
> our users' best interest to install them -- to the point that I think
> more maintainers should be asking for removal of their own packages
> instead of orphaning.


This makes sense to me. I can try to do my part there by adding
information to those orphaned packages that I know something about.

--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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