Andrey Rakhmatullin <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, Jun 06, 2026 at 05:12:30PM +0100, Steve McIntyre 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. > > There were two maintainers, and only one is formally MIA. The other > one, as Andreas wrote, "was asked about interest to become Maintainer > four years ago with no response".
I must be missing something: surely this other maintainer should then be removed from the package by the MIA team?
