On Wed, 09 Nov 2016 at 17:03:45 +1100, Brian May wrote: > Another situation: You are not listed as the maintainer of the package > you really care about, and the real maintainer ignores the autoremoval > notifications. Other people looking at the package bug reports (there > may be none) may not realize it is pending autoremoval.
I would recommend <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/hello> for all your "what is going on with this package?" needs. (I have a shortcut for it set up in my browser, so I just type "debpts hello" into the URL bar - the name is leftover muscle-memory from when the shortcut sent me to the older PTS interface <http://packages.qa.debian.org/hello>.) If you particularly care about a package, subscribing to it (also available from the tracker) will get you the same notifications that maintainers get. I am not actually the Maintainer of record for most of my packages (because they're team-maintained and I'm just an Uploader) so I rely on this for normal maintenance. S
