On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 15:57 +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Package: grunch > Version: 1.3-3 > Severity: serious > > Hi, > > During the Debian QA meeting hold during Sept. 09th till 11th, we begun > to go through the list of the oldest packages in Debian that are not in > testing (http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/oldest.html) to search for packages > that should be either orphaned or removed completly from Debian > (unstable and testing) since they have been obviously neglected by their > maintainer. > > Your package did show up on this list and we propose to remove > it. grunch was not released with sarge and has only very few users. > > This usually means that your package matched some of the following > criteria: > > [1] Your packages has not had an upload for more than two years > > [2] has one or more RC bugs with no answer from the maintainer (**) > > [3] the state of your packages in general seems to indicate that you > might be MIA > > [4] (if we propose a removal) it shows in popcon as having less than > 100 users with the package installed. > > [5] the package was not released with sarge > > and at least ([1] and ( [2] or [3] or [4] or [5] )) was true. > > (**) The maintainer not answering to RC bugs refers to bugs filed > more than one month before the time the check was performed. > > After 7 days without answer from you (the maintainer) we will reassign > this bug to either WNPP (in case we propose to orphan it) or > ftp.debian.org (in case we propose to remove it). > > The package will need an upload or an explanation for this action not to > proceed. > > Please do *not* upload a package just to get off this list - it won't > help the package at all. Maintainers should be responsive and feel > responsible for their packages without needing other people to force > them to do work. Sometimes, finding a new maintainer or even removing > the package completly from the archive is better for Debian's users. > > Thanks! > > Marc >
As a matter of fact I had been considering starting this process myself. As I am not a debian maintainer myself (family issues interrupted my application process) I have had some difficulty organizing uploads to the archive. Given the inherent limitations of the program due to it's extremely specialized original purpose I would recommend just removing it. Sincerely, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
