Currently, there are over a hundered bug reports in the bug tracking system that are filed under "maintainer unknown" (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/ma/l-28_unknown-29_.html).
In my experience, there are a few categories to be seen in these - Bug reports with missing Package: pseudo-header (or one not recognised by debbugs, e.g. in Pine-generated MIME). - Bug reports with a misspelled Package: pseudo-header. - General help requests - Spam messages - Bug reports for packages not in "stable" or "unstable": - concerning packages in Incoming - old bug reports Now that we have released 2.1, a lot of the bug reports are now "maintainer unknown" as they concern packages no longer in 'stable' or 'unstable'. I've reassigned a number of these to their successor or closest relative packages (e.g. slang0.99.38 -> slang1). Still this leaves a large amount of bug reports for packages that we simply do not have anymore (e.g. nfsroot, kde*). Perhaps it is time to develop some kind of policy to deal with these reports, and to institutionalise regular cleanup of "maintainer unknown" bug report through debian-qa? Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
