Will these packages will still be available through archive.d.o or will they be purged from there as well?
Joe Nahmias, DD wannabe Martin Michlmayr wrote: > There are currently about 200 orphaned packages, many of which have been > on WNPP for quite a long time and some with RC bugs. I intend to request > the removal of the following packages in two weeks unless a package has > been adopted by someone until then. If you want to keep one of the > following packages, please make sure to > - change the title of the bug from O: to ITA: as described on > http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp > - make an upload to the archive, change the Maintainer: field to you, > fix as many bugs as possible, also check for new upstream releases, > etc. > - Make sure to close the WNPP bug in your upload. > > If you cannot make an upload for some reason (e.g., you need a sponsor), > then contact me privately. However, unless there is a good reason, an > upload should happen within the next 2 weeks. <snip> > # The rules: > # * All packages orphaned less than 90 days ago will be kept! > # * Ignore all bugs less than 30 days old. > # otherwise: > # * Packages with RC bugs will be removed. > # * Packages orphaned 180 days ago and with NMUed RC bugs will be removed. > # * Packages orphaned with a Standards-Version less than 3.0 (which > # would be a RC bug anyway) will be removed. > # * Packages orphaned more than 360 days ago will be removed in any case.
