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Hello QA people! I've been going through packages with RC bugs in an attempt to help sarge's release and I've run into a number of packages that have been essentially orphaned by their listed maintainer through neglect. I was told that this list is the proper place to report this so that the packages can be properly orphaned and looked after. Following is a list of packages, and my analysis/reasoning that led me to the orphan conclusion: Package: freenet-unstable Maintainer: Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Analysis: Maintainer script broken for 234 days, patch sent to bts in January 2003. No response from maintainer and no upload in a year. Even when this is worked around, the app seems unusable. I'm guessing maintainer isn't interested anymore since he hasn't responded to the RC bugs. It would seem that this pkg is more a candidate for experimental than unstable, as the pkg has quite a few old important and normal bugs. However, don't remove from unstable b/c of dep by frost. I will mail debian-qa about orphaning. Package: realtimebattle Maintainer: Fredrik Hallenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Analysis: This package has two FTBFS bugs open against (one for over a year) and no response from the maintainer. Also, no uploads since 2002-02-15. Package: preferences Maintainer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederico S. Munoz) Analysis: FTBFS bug open for > 3 months with no response from maintainer. More disturbing however, is the important bug open for over a year entitled: "Kills X Server when it doesn't find a font cache". Maintainer promised a new version over a year ago, and still waiting... I will contact debian-qa to orphan the package. Package: word2x Maintainer: Matthew Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Analysis: FTBFS bug open over 2 years, no response from the maintainer. Last maintainer upload in April of 2001. Lots of other bugs outstanding even if FTBFS is fixed. This package needs a new home, debian-qa will be contacted. I hope this helps! Joe Nahmias, DD wannabe PS - I do not subscribe to -qa, so please CC me on replies. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/YUjZKl23+OYWEqURAnrKAJ4oOcOdUoFrl5I5vKZIryk/sbuB3QCeMJvy oL5icGvvHQ52uB+czUFtYHc= =h+GB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
