Christoph Lameter wrote: > I wonder if we need a policy that prior maintainers need to be consulted > before a package is removed. Some other packages have just vanished while > I am busy with this endless dissertation. Hopefully that will be over > soon.
It's probably a good idea to make an announcment if a package is about to be dropped, so that others have a chance to maintain it. This would of course include any prior maintainers. But if the package's maintainer thinks it should be removed, and no-one else volunteers to maintain it, then I don't think anyone should be able to say "No, let it sit there and rot instead". Richard Braakman
