Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That said, I do believe that if a package is unpopular enough that > nobody picks up maintaining it, even while it's orphaned, what the > prospects of the package are, and how much use it has to prolong its > life extraordinary. If you're sufficiently committed to a certain > package, you can just as well adopt it after all.
Hm, well, no. I do particularly care for one orphaned package, lmodern. But since it currently doesn't have any (real) RC bugs, I have more important things to do than adopt it on behalf of the debian-tetex-maint list (or talking Norbert Preining into creating it from his texlive sources). If any work is really badly needed, someone of us will for sure step in; but that doesn't mean that we're happy to have the additional burden. I'd rather have it marked as orphaned, so that a new maintainer "candidate" can clearly see that it needs care, than formally adopt it while we can in fact only care for RC bugs[1]. Therefore I don't think that merely being orphaned is a good criterion for removal; especially not until we make sure that all unmaintained or badly maintained packages are in fact orphaned. Regards, Frank [1] and the important one, which might turn out to be RC -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
