On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:58:54 +0100 Till Maas opensource@till.name 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?
There may be some cases of that. If so, the non responsive maintainer procedure should be used on those maintainers.
perl-SVN-Mirror iburrell (fixed by Till Maas; spot says kill it) perl-SVN-Simple iburrell
There is a minor error: I fixed the -Simple package with a patch submitted in the upstream bugtracker iirc 7 days ago. But I also noticed that the -Mirror package was removed from debian.
But what about the other packages from this maintainer? He maintains around 36 other packages: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/iburrell
E.g. the jigdo packages also has 4 bug. I looked at two an both did not receive any comments from the maintainer: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426847 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503833
Indeed. I don't see much activity from them. Have you tried sending them an email? If not, I can.
Therefore the non responsive maintainer procedure, i.e. orphaning all packages from the affected maintainers, seems to me to be more appropriate.
In this particular case, yes.
kevin