Yes, it probably should be.

upstream is dead, there are better alternatives now.  These
include python-psycopg and sql-relay.

Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/11/2005 
09:20:07 AM:

> Package: zope-popyda
> Version: 2.0.8-3
> Severity: serious
> 
> Hi,
> 
> During the Debian QA meeting hold during Sept. 09th till 11th, we begun
> to go through the list of the oldest packages in Debian that are not in
> testing (http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/oldest.html) to search for packages
> that should be either orphaned or removed completly from Debian
> (unstable and testing) since they have been obviously neglected by their
> maintainer.
> 
> Your package did show up on this list and we propose to remove it. There
> are only very few users, it never was part of Debian stable release and
> is RC buggy for almost a year now.
> 
> This usually means that your package matched some of the following
> criteria:
> 
>  [1] Your packages has not had an upload for more than two 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
> 
> 



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