Hi, thanks all for opinions. I should probably do it and orphan packages, where the uploader-list is empty... Not much of them but still.
With freecad I will wait till the answer from Adam or when his status will be changed to MIA. Best regards Anton 2018-05-24 12:10 GMT+02:00 Graham Inggs <[email protected]>: > Hi Adam > > Please let us know if you intend maintaining the freecad package going > forward. > > Teemu and Anton will no longer be maintaining it (see below), so if you > won't be maintaining it, I agree with Sébastien that orphaning the package > would better match reality. > > Regards > Graham > > > On 23/05/2018 23:41, Sébastien Villemot wrote: >> >> Hi Anton, >> >> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 11:17:35PM +0200, Anton Gladky wrote: >> >>> freecad_0.16.6712+dfsg1-2 has just been uploaded and >>> two of its maintainers (me and Teemu) decided not to maintain >>> this package any more. Adam, which is currently the only >>> one in "Uploaders"-field seems to be not active for a long time. >>> >>> I am not orphaning the package because it is team-maintained. >>> But it would be good if somebody could take over the package. >> >> >> IMO, it's better to orphan the package, to make it clear that it has no >> active >> maintainer. Otherwise that critical piece of information may go unnoticed >> for a >> long time by third parties, including potentially interested maintainers. >> And >> this doesn't prevent the future maintainer from keeping it in Debian >> Science. >> >> Best, >> >> >> > > > -- > debian-science-maintainers mailing list > [email protected] > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers
