Bug#328851: very old packages, should these be removed?
Package: sitescooper,sitescooper-sites Severity: serious Hi, During the Debian QA meeting hold during Sept. 09th till 11th, we decided that looking at packages that haven't been uploaded for a very long time could cover up some QA problems. I've done this now and your packages showed up on the list. I propose to remove them. There are some open bug reports, but not many users, upstream development seems to be dead and there are alternatives like plucker (plus the fact that mobile devices nowadays have full-blown browsers and/or special WPA content) This usually means that your package matched some of the following criteria: [1] Your packages has not had a maintainer upload for more than three years. [2] has one or more RC bugs with no answer from the maintainer (**) [3] the state of your packages in general seems to indicate that you might be MIA [4] (if we propose a removal) it shows in popcon as having less than 100 users with the package installed. [5] the package was not released with sarge and at least ([1] and ( [2] or [3] or [4] or [5] )) was true. (**) The maintainer not answering to RC bugs refers to bugs filed more than one month before the time the check was performed. After 7 days without answer from you (the maintainer) we will reassign this bug to either WNPP (in case we propose to orphan it) or ftp.debian.org (in case we propose to remove it). The package will need an upload or an explanation for this action not to proceed. Please do *not* upload a package just to get off this list - it won't help the package at all. Maintainers should be responsive and feel responsible for their packages without needing other people to force them to do work. Sometimes, finding a new maintainer or even removing the package completly from the archive is better for Debian's users. Thanks! Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Processed: Re: Bug#328851: very old packages, should these be removed?
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: retitle 328851 RM: sitescooper, sitescooper-sites -- RoM; old, superseded, unneeded Bug#328851: very old packages, should these be removed? Changed Bug title. severity 328851 normal Bug#328851: RM: sitescooper, sitescooper-sites -- RoM; old, superseded, unneeded Severity set to `normal'. reassign 328851 ftp.debian.org Bug#328851: RM: sitescooper, sitescooper-sites -- RoM; old, superseded, unneeded Bug reassigned from package `sitescooper,sitescooper-sites' to `ftp.debian.org'. thankskbye Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
