On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 08:32:01AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > Huh? Submit a bug report against ftp.debian.org, and ask that the > package be removed. What's so hard about it?
I wish it would be that easy. I haven't read the thread, but I'm willing to bet someone has already declared me a heretic for ignoring our users' interests when I hinted that some packages should be removed from the archive. That was the case a couple of years back at least. I beleive the most vocal defender of that position was Adrian. Perhaps things have changed now. > I suppose there might be an issue the original maintainer is MIA, but > if a package has been on the "orphaned" list for >6 months, then that > should be sufficient to get the package pulled and the WNPP bug > closed. I argued for that about two years ago and eventually got tired of the argument I paraphrased above so I gave up. > Or perhaps we should just decree that no unmaitained packages go out > in a stable release. I actually argued for that, too. The release manager disagreed -- or better worded, he saw no major problem as long as the package didn't have any RC bugs (and I apologize in advance to Anthony if I'm putting words in his mouth, but that's my recollection and I don't feel like diving in the archive right now). > At the beginning of the freeze, mark all the WNPP packages for > removal (along with their dependencies :-)), and then see if we can > inspire some reaction. LOL That's actually an idea... Marcelo