I will do a proper orphan of a bunch of packages soon, as I am completely our of time. But in the meanwhile take this mail as an orphan bug report in wnpp.
Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience. And merry Xmas. El 24/12/2012 19:30, "Steve Langasek" <vor...@debian.org> escribió: > Hi Andrew, > > On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 09:37:02PM -0500, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: > > > > While reviewing some packages, your package came up as a package that > > > should maybe be orphaned by its maintainer, because: > > > > * Out of date with upstream. > > > * Buggy. (1 RC bug). > > > * NPOASR. (Never part of a stable release). > > > * Low popcon. > > > > If you think that it should be removed from Debian instead of being > > > orphaned, please reply to this bug and tell so. > > > > If you disagree and want to continue to maintain this package, please > > > close this bug and do an upload also fixing the other issues. > > > I just came across this package. It's been three years since this bug > > was reported with no response from the maintainer. Nor have there been > > any maintainer uploads of the package in this time. There are also > > unanswered bugs that are even older than this. Though the maintainer > > is not completely MIA. He has uploaded other packages within the last > > year. [1] > > The package is no longer RC-buggy and /has/ been part of a stable release, > though this is only because of the action of NMUers. I've added them to > Cc: > Mehdi, Bastian, do you have any personal interest in the dogtail package, > and opinion on whether it should be orphaned? If it were orphaned, would > either of you be interested in adopting it? > > I certainly don't think low popcon is an argument for orphaning the package > - it might be an argument for removing the package, but isn't a very strong > one by itself. Likewise, unanswered non-RC bugs are not by themselves a > reason for orphaning a package. However, there's also bug #585287 which > has > gone unanswered and may actually be a serious issue in the package. > > José Carlos, are you still interested in maintaining dogtail? You haven't > uploaded it in 6 years, and it does seem to be in need of attention. > > -- > Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS > Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. > Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ > slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org >
