On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 10:20:19AM -0400, David Bremner wrote:
> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> writes:
> 
> > It shouldn't be enough for a package to have its worst bugs fixed like 
> > FTBFS or
> > crashes when it gets shipped with a release. Packages that are being 
> > shipped with
> > a release should also be properly maintained or not shipped at all.
> 
> For context, there are currently 929 packages maintained by
> packa...@qa.debian.org. That doesn't count packages that have an
> inactive maintainer, which is more challenging to quantify.
There were proposals for that, for example counting time and/or number of
uploads since the last maintainer upload.
On the other hand, there is vocal opposition in the project to calculating
whether a package is working/useful/should be removed based on its
maintenance status in Debian, its upload history, the history of its
upstream releases and similar things.

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WBR, wRAR

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