On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:23:37PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > 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".
This was *not* decided during DC8 or anything. And especially not such a crude "one week of orphanness is enough time" rule. After all, they should be adopted, not dropped at first sight. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de Release Assistant `. `' xmpp:p...@0x539.de Stable Release Manager `- finger pkern/k...@db.debian.org
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