Andreas Tille writes ("Bug#1121842: sympathy: Should sympathy be removed from
unstable?"):
> Alternatively, you may wait a month and have it reassigned.
This seems like a reasonable timescale to me, to give anyone (user or
developer) a last chance to step forward and say they want this kept.
Also, I would like to say that I approve wholeheartedly of the process
you have adopted here. It is a respectful, nonviolent, and consensual
way to do necessary cleanup.
So, thanks.
I did want to pick up on a couple of things:
> While I got the hint "I'm sure there are other parts
> of Debian that would benefit much more from your efforts."
> these open RC bugs ... continuously
> attract attention and it would be easier to clean up either
> by fixing or removing the package.
Obviously I agree that a focus on RC bugs is a good thing. (But I
would also encourage a quick wider look at any package before deciding
to try to work on it!)
> and source format 3.0 bugs
Here, you also mention "source format 3.0 bugs".
This suggests that there is still an ongoing campaign to try to
deprecate source format 1.0. IMO this is misguided.
Please refer to the following Technical Commitee decision:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1007717#384
| ...
| 4. We believe that there are indeed circumstances in which
| 1.0-with-diff is the best choice for a particular source package,
| including, but not limited to, git-first packaging workflows.
| ...
That was June 2022. Nothing has changed in the meantime.
Even for 1.0 native, "3.0 (native)" cannot always replace it because
dpkg has failed to implement points 1 and 2 of that same resolution;
see #737634 and #1106402.
If you are aware of resources which seem to give the impression that
converting packages to 3.0 is always an improvement, or that it is
a good idea to bother an active maintainer about changing to 3.0,
please would you let me know so that we can have that clarified.
Regards,
Ian.
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