On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 02:18:51PM +0200, Benjamin Bayart wrote: > Le Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:32:30PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld: > But I disagree on your conclusion: if people just submit patches to the > bug tracking system, the patches will not find a way to the users, since > there is no maintainer to do it.
But this doesn't depend on the availability of a VCS but on the availability of people to upload the package. Perhaps during creating the former you find the latter ones. But that's about marketing, not about technical solutions, IMO. To be clear, I'm not against organising the maintainance of orphaned packages better, but I have two issues here: 1) Often it might be better for the overall quality of Debian to swiftly remove an orphaned package instead of spending time trying to fix it. 2) I still fear that people will try to maintain a package this way with the option in case of a problem to say "no, I'm not the maintainer, see, it's orphaned" Still, I would really regret to scare someone away from contributing by my arguments about this. I just try to make sure you clearly have thought this through before investing a lot of work into this that might be better spend elsewhere... Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
