Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Mon Jan 18 18:26:47 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:25:44PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> > Ugh, this seems like it would just create a lot of make-work for the
> > common case where packages *are* maintained. Perhaps only do this
> > for packages that appear via some criteria (have not been built, have
> > not been committed to, have lots of bugs with no response, etc.), but
> > doing it for *every* package seems like overkill.
> >
> 
> Right - so maybe last check into devel branch since the last release of 
> the distro.
> 
> If we do that check before the alpha release that should let us track down 
> awol maintainers and unmaintained pkgs pretty easily, I think.

The majority of my packages does not get updated that often (15 from 21)
and there are also no bug reports unhandled for them.

I am not sure how the ratio is for others, but it does not seem to be
such a got criterion.

Regards
Till
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