Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

[Till Maas]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 02:06:09PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:01:20PM +0100, Till Maas wrote:

> > What about the other packages of these maintainers? E.g. in the
> > recordmydesktop case, there were four bugs open with working patches
> > attached for that package. I did not yet check the other packages, but
> > in case a packager does not have the time anymore to maintain one
> > package from this list, why do we assume that he has the time to
> > maintain the others?
> > So before the mass orphaning is done, it would be nice to do it in a way
> > that allows to at least easily spot which maintainers owned the packages
> > before the orphage, so non responsive maintainers can be found easier.
> > Or tell all maintainers in question and orphan all their packages. But
> > the current solution seems to be only half-baked.
> 
> I made sure that no one who fixed a package was actually the package
> owner.

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?

> 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

Therefore the non responsive maintainer procedure, i.e. orphaning all
packages from the affected maintainers, seems to me to be more
appropriate.

Regards
Till
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