Orphaning Blueman

[Dan Mashal]

On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Juan Rodriguez
<nushio at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi Devel!
>
> I've recently been approached about one of the packages I maintain, Blueman,
> an alternative Bluetooth Manager.
>
> At the time I packaged it, it was actively being developed, however
> development has stopped for over a year [1]. The project's domain expired
> too. [2]
>
> The package has been continuously piling up bugs. Some of which I can fix
> (Packaging) but most of which I can't (Actual crashes).
>
> Given that both the KDE Bluetooth Manager and the Gnome Bluetooth Manager
> both work wonderfully, I'm orphaning the package.
>
> [1] https://code.launchpad.net/~chihchun/blueman/blueman-lp1087890
> [2] http://blueman-project.org/
>

Have you tried to contact upstream?

Why not just retire and block it at the same time if it is dead

Dan