[email protected] wrote: > >For clucene-core we have a maintainer who has not uploaded in nearly ten >years, contact attempts that went unanswered, repeated NMUs, and pending >fixes from contributors. Yet, as far as I understand, there is currently >no established procedure that would allow the package to become formally >orphaned without active involvement from the maintainer. > >This is exactly the gap I am trying to discuss. If we believes that such >packages should become formally orphaned rather than move to Debian >Commons, what is the practical path to achieve that?
What am I missing here? This sounds like a classic example of something that normally gets done with MIA processing. Is the (non-)maintainer responding at all? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

