Package: xscreensaver
Severity: important
The xscreensaver package has 120 bugs going back over 9 years that are
just rotting in the BTS without attention. Some of them are tagged
security, some tagged patch. A lot of bugs have not been modified
since shortly after they were reported.
I sad to say but you are not doing as good a job maintaining the
package as you should. Maybe you aren't that interested in
xscreensaver anymore or you don't have the time or any number of other
valid reasons. But fact is that bugs are being left to rot in the BTS.
For example #403557 should have been tagged more-info and eventually
closed as unreproducible 9 years ago and is still there tagged
security.
So I urge you to please find a new maintainer to either take over (in
the worst case) or simply work alongside yourself to help clean up the
backlog of bugs in this package.
If it is just that you left bugs open for so long (or inherited them
from a revious maintainer) that now you are swamped and can't catch up
then you could also contact the front desk to get some prospective new
DDs assigned to look over and triage bugs. It's good experience for
them and the package would hopefully get back on track.
MfG
Goswin
PS: This is not a personal attack on you but an encouragement to make
the package the best it can be.
