Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 01/16/2010 12:14 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 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.
>

I don't see who the orphaning without following proper procedure is
appropriate at all. Simply blocking the ones which FTBFS bugs were not
fixed from F-13 inclusion would have been the appropriate response
(as documented in our procedures), not
some adhoc almost random response.

Regards,

Hans