Package: release.debian.org Severity: wishlist Following a quick chat with Luk, and following the discussion in #484009 about the removal of update-notifier/update-manager, I want to make the following suggestions:
- the release team should encourage volunteers to fix in priority RC bugs that matters more first. This includes bugs in packages of priority >= standard, non-leaf packages and leaf packages which are listed in one or more tasks (cf tasksel git repo for the latest version of tasks: http://git.debian.org/?p=tasksel/tasksel.git;a=tree;f=tasks;hb=HEAD ) This could be done by adding a restricted view of http://bts.turmzimmer.net/ or http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ This can also be done by providing a listing a affected packages in the regular news sent to debian-devel-announce. - the release team should only remove packages listed in tasks after having explicitely warned the maintainer concerned. Such mails should be CCed to debian-devel so that other volunteers can jump in and take over the work of the MIA maintainer (and also give their opinion if the package should instead be dropped from the task as it's no more suited). A delay of one week would seem reasonable and wouldn't change much when those packages are only removed after long periods of inactivity in the bug log. I think it's important that the release team supports the work done on tasksel (by the d-i team) by not removing unilateraly packages which are listed in tasks. They have been added there in the first place for a reason, it would be nice to be able to offer a continued user experience from release to release and not have significant functionalities disappear just because we (as Debian, not as release team) have not been able to recruit volunteers for the corresponding packages. Thank you for your consideration and for your work! Cheers, -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
