On Thu, 01 Feb 2018 at 08:50:05 +0100, Andrej Shadura wrote: > > I don't think you'll get much sympathy for a package being removed > > from unstable when it hasn't shipped with a Debian release since > > Wheezy, and has continuously been out of Testing for 3.5 years. > > True, it hasn't. But if you look a little bit closer, you'll see both RC > bugs it had were quite trivial to fix
I'm sure they are - *many* RC bugs are trivial to fix. That doesn't necessarily make them the best use of our limiting resource: volunteer time/attention/motivation. If I could spend an hour fixing trivial RC bugs in undermaintained packages with few users (and trying to work out how to smoke-test the result to make sure I'm not uploading something fundamentally broken, which is usually the more time-consuming part), or alternatively I could spend 10 minutes proposing their removal and spend the rest of the hour fixing non-RC bugs in widely-relied-on packages like dbus or GNOME, I suspect the latter is going to have a larger impact on the quality of Debian. If you disagree (different people have different priorities), there are plenty of unmaintained or undermaintained packages you could pick up. smcv