Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Raphael Geissert] >> The idea was to leave them out of *testing*, not immediately >> dropping them from the archive. > > Isn't this equivalent to stating that being unmaintained is a release > critical bug in a package?
Yes, like I mentioned in my original mail. > And if it is, would it not be better to > just register new RC bugs to document the fact, and allow those > interested in those packages a place to add their comments about it? > That's a possibility. And as soon as the BTS supports 'affects' it would be easier to file the O bug against the package with affects set to wnpp. > Packages with RC bugs are removed regularly from testing, and thus > this approach should give the same result as targeting unmaintained > packages specially. Yup. > > Personally, I agree that unmaintained packages are unfit for release, > and thus should have RC bugs registered against them to keep them out > of testing. :) > Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
