Luca Falavigna wrote: > Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ha scritto: >> I agree with this: we don't want unmaintained packages in Ubuntu. Most of the >> packages have a maintainer in Debian (and there may or may not be people in >> Ubuntu caring for them). But getting new packages directly into Ubuntu means >> we >> rely on ourselves to completely maintain those packages. > > That's the most crucial and interesting part: how many packages we > maintain are not touched since ages? If we look at MDT output [1], we > can see there are ~ 1000 packages in Universe/Multiverse not available > in Sid, this is bad because Debian doesn't ship useful packages and > MOTUs need to care at them without sharing maintainership with Debian. > > I guess there are many packages never touched and with several open > bugs, they will probably stay the same forever, unless we agree on a > solution: working with some interested DDs to incorporate them in > Debian, fix them in a sane way or just drop them from the archives. > Ideas are appreciated.
Thanks for the numbers. I think limiting new source upload contributions to UUC and developers will help to avoid this number from increasing more and more. Emilio -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
