Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Till Maas wrote:

>> Often maintainers don't realize they have some of these packages, or the
>> maintainers have left the project.
>
> Do maintainer really "often" forget, that they own a certain package?
> Ok, maybe if they are forced to do this from Red Hat, I do not know. But
> I am happy for every package that I do not have to maintain.
>
> But I think packages with no bug reports because they are not
> used are also not that big of a problem if they exist, unless they are
> really big or take very long to be rebuilt. It's imho at least not a
> problem that needs to be checked for every year. Or can you point to any
> known issues because of such packages since Fedora started?


Sure - we're expanding with no end in sight. Every pkg increases the load 
of metadata and crap that EVERYONE has to download and has to deal with.

If we have pkgs which are NOT being used then we can save everyone the 
bandwidth.

Let's call it a cleanliness thing.

-sv