2010/11/17 Allan McRae <[email protected]>: > On 17/11/10 22:45, Heiko Baums wrote: >> >> Am Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:19:40 -0500 >> schrieb Kaiting Chen<[email protected]>: >> >>> I think it's kind of hard for me to see why I should maintain a >>> package that's already been discarded by its developer. In my opinion >>> such packages should be moved to [unsupported] where the one more two >>> people who might want to use them can simply build them themselves. >> >> Why should those packages be removed from the repos as long as they are >> running? That doesn't make sense. And such packages doesn't make any >> work for the developers. They can just be staying in the repos without >> doing any harm like e.g. eboard. > > Because there is no-one in charge of any bug reports, monitoring security > issues, rebuilding the package for soname bumps... Packages without a > maintainer do cause all other devs needless work.
Why not move them to a "graveyard" repo, that would be called [unmaintained]. It would contain binary packages that belonged formerly to [community] but are explicitly not maintained anymore. That would allow people who use them to still have binary packages, until it doesn't work anymore (then someone files an out-of-date notice and the package has to be deleted). -- Rémy.
