On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:23:37PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Hi all, > > Lenny is now out, so I think it is time to decide how to proceed with what > was discussed during DC8. Is the release team still ok with the idea of > keeping orphaned packages out of testing? how should it be done? via > severity: serious bugs and, possibly automated, auto removal hints? some > other way? > > In any case, I think waiting a week since a package was orphaned before it > is removed should be enough time in case a package is marked as orphaned > by "mistake". >
Removing crap from the archive is something really welcome. But I am not sure this is a good metric. There are orphaned packages that given a QA upload from time to time are in a good shape. On the contrary there are crap packages with maintainers, often bitroting in a team. As those packages don't have the chance to have a maintainer, I would like to propose the creation of the "Packages without maintainer team" to fix that. Obviously they should be lowNMU threshold. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
