Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > So: what should I do? I'm thinking about orphaning the package as a > first step, and if nobody takes care of it as much as it is needed, > just remove it from the distribution. Packaging would still be > available in a git repository, so if someone sometime picks it up, > it should be quite easy not to start from scratch again.
I would personnally ask for it to be removed from the archive (assuming that's easily feasible witouht breakign anything else). A non-cooperative upstream wrt distribution and integration is a no-no and you'll waste too much valuable time in maintaining that package. Of course, being the arse that I am, I would *also* craft a mail to upstream mailing lists with a careful explanation about the reasons leading to the package being abandoned. Something like "Debian stops distributing Blender! as cooperation is impossible to make it fit within a distro". Coordinating this with Ubuntu would even have more power...
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