On Friday 24 February 2012 16:19:25 Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Hi all, > > while the rebuild of unsigned packages is about to be finished we > should start to think about our orphaned packages. ATM there about 430 > of them in core and extra 1); some of them are 8probably) not needed by > any other package 2) > > Here is my proposal: > * Everybody please review the list and adopt packages that you use and > might be willing to maintain. > * If you maintain a package that depends on an orphan, please adopt it. > It does not make sense to depend on an maintained package. Note that > packages can have mroe than one maintainer; so you should share the > workload. > * If a TU wants to maintain an orphan that is currently in [extra], > please let us know. > * Maybe we can also have a small team that adopts all orphans that > nobody wants to adopt on their own but is needed. > > The goal should be to adopt all needed/wanted orphans and remove > everything else. +1
`aurphan -p` could help to find some package to adopt. -- Andrea
