Hi Bernd, On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 02:16:23PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > as described in Message-ID: <20201231124509.gb3...@layer-acht.org> > > or > > http://layer-acht.org/thinking/blog/20201231-no-source-change-source-uploads/ > > I plan to do 3000 NMUs soon. > Thanks for your work!
thanks!
> Although the high number of packages makes me wonder, if at least a
> quick MIA check of the maintainers is warranted, or - if those packages
> are needed in bullseye at all.
> Of course, there are some packages which are working just fine with the
> same source for years, but at least some debhelper/compat or policy
> check and upload at some point makes sense.
>
> I think Debian should sometimes be better and faster in removing
> unmaintained stuff.
while I agree in principle I have to say that in practice it's not doable
for me, uploading 3000 packages doing just the basic checks that I do is a
major task already, if I add any other QA measure which requieres human
consideration (like removal) it becomes a much much bigger task, deluting
my original goal of fixing the issue of missing .buildinfo files. Even
just running lintian-brush would at least double the amount, though I believe
the impact would be even higher.
that said, I filed a bug to get src:embedian-archive-keyring removed from
sid and then bullseye. That was one striking example I found going through
those first 570 packages...
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