OK, so I looked at Lintian and some of the packages with ancient-standards-version have *really* ancient standards versions -- 2.something.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of these are generally pretty poorly maintained packages. (Some are in pretty good shape, though.) You'll also note that the same names come up repeatedly. What do y'all advise? Wishlist bugs? Also, it looks like Matthias Kabel and Hanno Wagner may be MIA. The others appear to exist, although I kind of wish Jim Lynch didn't, given his record. :-P Here's the list: animals: Jim Lynch, who has been a terrible maintainer w/r/t this package. cruft: Anthony Towns, who isn't maintaining this package really dhcp: Eloy A. Paris -- This one at any rate works OK emacsen-common: Rob Browning -- this one at any rate works -- sort of; it was last uploaded in 2002 and has six important bugs. He's busy, what with emacs21 and guile-1.6. epic: QA group maintained floppybackup: Matthew Vernon. Standards version 2.1.2.2. Last maintainer upload in the year 2000. ipxripd: Eloy A. Paris ld.so: David Engel. Well, it's a libc5 compat package anyway. lockfile-progs: Rob Browning -- last uploaded 2001 logout-button: Jim Lynch ncpfs: Eloy A. Paris netselect: Avery Pennarun (his only package) -- orphaned & being adopted pilot-template: John Goerzen (surprise!) postit: Matthias Kabel -- last maintainer upload in the year 2000 qps: Hanno Wagner -- last maintainer upload in 2001 sauce: Ian Jackson (surprise!) sgrep: Orphaned translate: Matthias Kabel -- last upload 2001 urlredir: Chris Leishman -- last upload 2001 xlispstat: Douglas Bates xtranslate: Matthias Kabel -- last maintainer upload 2000 -- Nathanael Nerode <neroden at gcc.gnu.org> US citizens: if you're considering voting for Bush, look at these first: http://www.misleader.org/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/arar/ http://www.house.gov/reform/min/politicsandscience/
