Hello Holger, I will do my part myself ASAP
Kind regards Mechtilde Am 31.12.20 um 14:21 schrieb Holger Levsen: > 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... > > -- Mechtilde Stehmann ## Apache OpenOffice ## Freie Office Suite für Linux, MacOSX, Windows und OS/2 ## Debian Developer ## PGP encryption welcome ## F0E3 7F3D C87A 4998 2899 39E7 F287 7BBA 141A AD7F
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