Nirbheek Chauhan schrieb:
I propose that we should be more aggressive about package.masking (for
removal) all maintainer-needed packages from the tree by doing that
one month after they become maintainer-needed. If someone doesn't
volunteer to take care of it, it probably wasn't important anyway.
Uhm no. The fact that nobody takes care of it doesn't necessarily mean
that the package is broken and that it should be removed
I never said that such packages were broken. I'm saying that if no one
wants to maintain them, they probably aren't needed by anyone, and we
should clean such cruft from the tree.
If they *are* needed by someone, then those folks should come forward
to maintain it.
The only such package I would like to see go is net-misc/mDNSResponder.
And I am not convinced that having a maintainer listed in metadata.xml
makes the package automatically non-cruft, or that orphaned packages are
not at all cared about.
Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
