Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>After a suitable period of time to collect replies (two weeks), I plan >>to write to the debian-qa mailing list. I'll give a summary of the >>source packages listed at the first URL above for which I received >>affirmative, negative, and no responses. > > > Great, but before actual removing happens, there needs to be an actual > judgment about the usefulness of the package. There is no substitute > for this; there is no suitable automated proxy which can eliminate the > need for particularized examination of the packages concerned.
Well, some of the packages I mentioned have RC bugs because they are uninstallable; it's hard to see how those are useful to anyone. The ones that FTBFS are also a concern should someone need to quickly upload a security fix for them. That said, the *only* packages for which I am filing requests for removal are those for which the maintainer specifically replies something to the effect of "Go ahead and ask for its removal". (And yes, so far there has already been one of those out of eight replies.) In about two weeks, it will also be worth taking a hard look at those packages for which the maintainer neither replies to me nor fixes any of their RC bugs - those might be reasonable candidates for forcible orphaning or hijacking (not that I am volunteering to do so). best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
