On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 22:58 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
But what about the other packages by these maintainers that do not fail to build but are probably as unmaintained as the packages that fail to build?
Because this isn't a fully proper non-responsive maintainer approach, we felt it was only necessary to orphan the particular packages in question. These maintainers may have been active elsewhere, and wholesale orphaning with very little notice does not seem appropriate.