On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 11:39:38AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 07:10:06PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > And, quite honestly, animals should probably disappear. When all of a > > maintainer's packages were NMU'd into stable, and they haven't moved since, > > it's time to say goodbye. > > animals is orphaned (#202174), although the maintainer seems to be under > some kind of strange impression that he actually maintains the package > (see the same bug).
I read that little exchange when investigating newly orphaned packages, then checked qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED], and laughed. For anyone wondering: having your name in the Maintainer field doesn't make you the maintainer. Maintaining the package makes you the maintainer. - Matt