Brad Fanella wrote: > On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 07:54:42PM +0200, Jakob Gruber wrote: > > Hi TUs, > > > > I've just created a new proposal concerning the orphaning of all packages > > marked 'out of date' which have not been updated (or submitted) since before > > January 1st, 2009. For details, see the actual proposal text. > > > > The voting period ends on October 10th, please cast your votes! > > > > schuay > > Yeah, as long as they haven't been updated for a while (as you said, January > 1st, 2009), then I'm all for it! > > Thanks, > Brad
I've cast a "yes" vote. I also move to name this "Operation Oliver Twist" and to name the orphaning script "twister". One problem that might arise though is if a stable package (i.e. one that almost never gets updated upstream) has been recently flagged out-of-date then it might get orphaned (a malicious user who is aware of the impending operation might even write a script to flag such packages out-of-date). Perhaps you could cross-reference the last activity of the maintainer when deciding whether to delete a package, e.g. last package action <= 2009-01-01 and last maintainer action <= xxxx-xx-xx. That shouldn't add much complexity to the code but it might improve the handling of a few fringe cases. I'm really just floating the idea though. Regards, Xyne
