Of the bugs noted in my RC bug trawl two months ago: http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2003/debian-qa-200310/msg00037.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2003/debian-qa-200310/msg00038.html Some (many?) are still open and RC on packages in sarge.
That was a very conservative RC bug trawl. With a few exceptions, having a bug on that list was a mark of derelict maintenance, and having one still open is even more certainly so. I recommend the following. First, MIA maintainers whose packages should all be orphaned: * Sebastian Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Martin Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Hugo Espuny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Rens Houben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Chris Ruffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Jonas Smedegaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Lenart Janos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I suspected these people of being MIA two months ago; now I'm pretty sure. :-) Someone should make a last-ditch effort to contact them and ask them if they'll voluntarily abandon their 'maintainer' status (or actually start maintaining their packages) but I'd rather the asker was an official Debian Developer, preferably an official QA team member. Next, in package-alphabetical order, old bugs and additional specific recommendations. Most of these should be orphaned because the maintainers are obviously not maintaining them even half-decently, though there are exceptions. Many should be removed from testing because they are clearly unsuitable for release and no fixes are forthcoming; others have bugs with easy fixes or patches and should be NMUed or QA-uploaded (depending on whether they're being orphaned or not). A few should probably be removed entirely. * cwwm: Remove from testing. (#196133, #192987) * cl-ftp: No recommendation, but #192007 is still open. * discover: Orphan & QA-upload. Its current maintainer(s) are simply not maintaining it. (#169264) * gjdoc: move to contrib, by NMU if necessary. (#199673) * gnokii: No recommendation, but #197597 is still open & RC. * hostname: Orphan and QA-upload. Check whether Doogie still exists. * jukebox-mercury: NMU (and consider orphaning) (#196470). * kernel-patch-lpp: Remove from testing and orphan. (#185641) * l2tpd: Remove from testing and orphan. (#198815) See if Jean-Francois Dive really wants to be a Debian maintainer; he seems almost MIA, but not quite. * libdbmusic: NMU (and consider orphaning) (#186433). Madkiss is maintaining other things, but does not seem to be on top of this package. * libgd-perl: Remove from testing (and orphan). (#197998) * libggi2-dev: QA-upload. (#102675) * libgtop2: Help wanted -- if you can fix it, do (#194108) * libxml-filter-xslt-perl: No recommendation, but #197760 is still open & RC. * logtrend-storageserver: Remove from testing and orphan. (#195291) See above note about Jean-Francois Dive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. * mondo: Orphan. The maintainer seems to be maintaining some other packages, but not this one. (#198390) * mueller: Orphan. The maintainer seems to be maintaining some other packages, but not this one. (#191206) * php4-apc: Orphan. The maintainer seems to be maintaining his other packages quite well, but not this one. (#186565) * php4-interbase: Supposedly fixed in sid? (#167377, #181316). Investigate the issues here. :-) * postnuke: Remove from testing and unstable, in keeping with the comments made about it. Note that this is a cross-site scripting vulnerability, and the maintainer appears MIA. (#197636) * request-tracker: Remove from testing and unstable, in keeping with discussion on this list. (#191165) * sgmltools-lite: Orphan, since maintainer isn't doing his job. (#168573) * stellarium: No recommendation, apparently fixed in sid (#198495) * syscalltrack: Was supposedly being adopted by Alastair McKinstry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- but no progress yet. Should be removed from testing and orphaned. (#190697) * sysklogd: Bug should be closed or downgraded, as it has grossly inflated severity. I suppose Joey just hasn't gotten around to it. (#199989) * timidity: Remove from testing (and orphan). (#166869) * tk8.0-dev: No recommendation. I pinged the bug to see if the maintainer might have thoughts. (#195793) * trafstats: Remove from testing and unstable; it's not buildable and nobody seems to care. * vlad: Remove from testing and unstable; dead upstream. Maintainer might be MIA too, worth checking. * vrflash: QA-upload. * xdialog: Remove from testing or QA-upload. * xemacs21-packages: #169891 is still open and the maintainer hasn't been heard from in quite a while. Check to see if he's MIA? That's it. Hope someone will do something useful with this. Once these have been dealt with I'll start looking at ignored RC bugs from August, maybe, in search of more MIA maintainers. ;-) -- Nathanael Nerode <neroden at gcc.gnu.org> http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html
