On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 07:43:09PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > The reason why it got removed, is that nobody was looking after razor. > Otherwise, preventing removal would have been easy.
Indeed. If I had known that it was going to be removed, I would have downgraded the severity of the bug before the autoremoval happened. > > I'm filing this only as a DD and long-time user of razor because the > > package is currently orphaned (#866833). IMO dropping razor from > > buster does not really help our users. > > So my concern here is the lack of maintainers. Who will step up to > maintain razor? I don't know. It's currently orphaned, so someone will pick it sooner or later, as it happens with every other orphaned package. In my opinion, the software is useful "as is" even if the last maintainer is not active anymore. We have a lot of packages maintained by "Debian QA" and we don't remove them from Debian just because they don't have a proper maintainer. We just keep them because they are useful. So, if it helps, I would be willing to make an upload to officially orphan it (using "Debian QA" as the Maintainer field) to be on par with every other QA-maintained package. Personally, I don't think it would change things a lot but if it's the difference between keeping razor in or out of buster, I will be happy to make an upload for that. (And if that's not enough, I would even be willing to put my name in the maintainer field, only until we find another maintainer, but in such case I would feel that we are being more strict with this package than any other QA-maintained package). Thanks.
