Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Till Maas wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:55:36PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>> Yes, I believe the expression you're looking for is:
>>
>> "Perfect is the enemy of the good"
>>
>> What is being suggested is not perfect. It is, however, good.
>
> Here we disagree. As I explained I see little use in it, since there are
> other methods that work at least as good as this on, but are less
> annoying. And they might even perform better, wrt to the challenge to
> find unmaintained packages. Or in other words, I do not trust in the
> mass bugfiling method, so the other methods still need to be implemented
> to get the information I am interested in.
>
> Also I cannot remember any argument from you that explains why your
> solution is superior to the other solutions.
>

I've not heard any other solutions which aren't "oh just let it be."

-sv