Hi Bill,
Am Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 03:38:53PM +0100 schrieb Bill Allombert:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 07:51:39PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Hi Drew,
> >
> > thanks a lot for your research on this topic. For me all you wrote
> > might motivate me to file a request for removal bug if nobody might
> > step up and gives good reasons to keep it.
>
> This package is bug free, why should we remove it just to improve some
> unimportant statistic ?
You mean the statistics that Debian has more and more packages for every
release no matter whether someone is using these?
> Nobody is going to come and salvage a package that has no RC bugs,
> even more so if the package have no bugs at all.
I think we should not call packages with broken Metadata (for instance
Vcs fields are not working) maintained and if it simply drains manpower
to provide some minimum level of maintenance, removal is better.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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