* Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> [250421 03:07]:
Let's rather talk about what Debian should officially support,
and how Josh Triplett plans to implement it.
I would be more than happy to work on it, in collaboration with others
proposing such changes. I expect that such work consists of 10% doing
careful archive-wide scans to detect usage of packages, 10% writing
tooling, 5% writing relatively small patches,
and 75% discussion threads
having to defend the value of such work from people who have no interest
in working on it themselves but spend a lot of energy telling other
people it's a waste of time.
This part seems a problem indeed.
Nevertheless, the people that are interested do exist. I also
observe that various current efforts in Debian work towards making
this easier, even if they start with a different proposition /
cause.
I would suggest you hit up some of the current maintainers of
Essential: yes packages, and leave the naysayers on d-devel to
themselves.
Chris
